Summary: Peak oil impacts in various ways on toll-ways financed by debt. As mentioned in a previous post peak oil = peak credit http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=430 This means that it has become harder to…
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Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng)
Sydney
New Liberal leader Tony Abbott did not know what peak oil is
Does he know it now? In July 2008, at the Sydney Writer’s Festival http://www.themonthly.com.au/video/2013/03/24/1364105225/future-liberal-party-part-2 Hardly noticed at the time, this is the video of the day in crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/02/peak-oil after Tony Abbott has…
World needs to save at least 3 mbd by 2020 for China to grow
Any volunteers? This is the 2nd post on the best slides shown at the October 2009 ASPO conference http://peak-oil.org/2009-conference-proceedings/ PFC Energy presented a graph showing Chinese oil production arriving at a bumpy…
Sustainable Cities Master Plan
A sustainable city is foremost an energy thrifty city with a minimum of energy used for transport. A good example is the 1976 master plan for Dodoma in Tanzania, an energy poor…
Submission BHP Olympic Dam mine expansion
Demand for diesel used would go up 16-fold. The submission proposes to scale down the size of the expansion commensurate with future diesel supplies. The removal of rock requires huge amounts of…
Australia in last quarter of its oil age
Australia is in the last quarter of its oil age. Geoscience Australia submitted oil production projections to the Senate Inquiry on oil supplies in 2005/06, showing 3 scenarios. http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate_Committees?url=rrat_ctte/completed_inquiries/2004-07/oil_supply/submissions/sub127.pdf Actual data of…
Critique ACIL Tasman liquid fuel vulnerability
The public consultation process of the Energy White Paper has skillfully pushed the peak oil issue out of its terms of reference and tucked it away under “related pages” in an assessment…
XPT Sydney – Coffs Harbour vs. Pacific Highway Upgrade
When going to Coffs Harbour for a peak oil presentation at the Council Chambers in March 2009 I took the XPT to test the rail service. Yes, what you see here is…
Submission 69 to the Senate Inquiry on oil supplies
The Australian Senate conducted an inquiry into Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels in 2006: http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Rural_and_Regional_Affairs_and_Transport/Completed_inquiries/2004-07/oil_supply/report/index This graph is from my submission entitled “Peak oil ante portas, followed by global…
How Cross City Tunnel planners ignored Peak Oil
Due to lack of patronage and anger of motorists about changed traffic conditions in and around Sydney’s Cross City Tunnel a Parliamentary inquiry was set up in December 2005 http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/Committee.nsf/0/A69743663274E980CA2570C10082D5D2 to investigate…