On 22/11/2011 I tested the XPT train from Sydney to Melbourne on my way to the conference Building Community Resilience and Minimising Risk http://www.mav.asn.au/events/Pages/Building-Community-Resilience-and-Minimizing-Risk-23112011.aspx organised by the Municipal Association of Victoria, for…
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NSW gas as transport fuel. Where are the plans?
Gas series part 2: NSW Scarred landscape: 90 coal seam gas wells South of Chinchilla, Queensland 6,000 wells are needed for the QCLNG export project over 20 years. Are we using the…
Sydney now beyond point of no return
Only days after the ABC TV broadcasted an interview with IEA chief economist Fatih Birol who warned that peak oil happened in 2006 and that the world should have prepared for peak…
Australia’s fuel import vulnerability increases as Sydney’s Clyde refinery is closing
Peak oil works according to plan, sweeping through the system bit by bit. Closing refineries are to be expected as global crude oil export volumes are declining. First victims are inefficient operators….
Australia’s debating club on transport fantasies after global crude oil exports peaked 2005
While armed conflicts about OPEC’s remaining oil are spreading like cancer in MENA countries and an accumulated debt crisis triggers money printing which drives up oil prices sky high, the media and…
Yet more debt to finance Sydney’s toll-way expansion
But will $740 million be enough to complete the M2 widening? Out of $740 million of new loans given by banks to Transurban, $465m are only for refinancing old M2 debt, leaving…
Report Card 2009 (Part 2) Aviation and Airport Master Plans – Pies in the skies
In 2009, the Federal government released both an aviation green and white paper. At the same time airports around Australia published their master plans, all assuming a doubling of air traffic within…