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- Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng) Sydney
![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 […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/508__320x240_wrongwaygoback-115x115.jpg "Yet more debt to finance Sydney’s toll-way expansion")
![The string of peak oil and global warming ignorant decisions of the NSW government shortly before elections in March 2011 is endless. On the same day the IEA released its […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Basement_Car_Park_880_spaces-115x115.jpg "Sydney builds huge sustainable basement car park in Darling Harbour prone to flooding by sea level rise")
![In a sign of things to come, a Chinese truck driver loaded 2 trucks on top of his truck, making it a triple decker truck, in order to save on […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/triple_decker_truck_quirky_china_news_cbb4caa5f6d0fc20f548f9b880574335-115x115.jpg "Diesel shortages in China")
![According to Transurban’s ASX press release dated 17thFebruary 2003 on the financial close of the Western Sydney Orbital, now M7 (Project debt of A$1.25 bn and A$ 980 million equity) […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/AADT_Growth_M7-115x115.jpg "Transurban’s M7 traffic 38% less than expected")
![Round and round we go How that helps the money flow Or: why we always need new toll-ways Nov 11th, 11:11 hrs. The silly season has started. Time for a […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Round_and_round_we_go_on_the_Sydney_Orbital-115x115.jpg "Tollopoly on Sydney’s orbital")
![In its final report on the M2 widening the RTA claims again that: “With reference to the M2 Upgrade project, traffic modelling across the Sydney network indicated that the proposed […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/hills_m2_upgrade_traffic_uplift-115x115.jpg "M2 widening increases Sydney’s oil vulnerability")
![The NSW government still has not understood the risks involved when approving the M2 widening while global oil production is set to decline. Wider M2 will drive deeper into motorists’ […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/m2-420x0-115x115.jpg "Quick Risk Analysis for M2 Widening (part 2)")
![Sindney goes backwards in public transport. Part of the M2 widening, the RTA is about to pull down a bus ramp connecting the M2 bus lanes with Epping station. This […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bus_lane_ramp_tunnel-115x115.jpg "Sydney’s RTA about to pull down public transport infrastructure (part 1)")
![In this 2nd article on the ASPO 2010 conference we have a look at Chris Skrebowski’s graphs http://www.optioninvestor.com/page/oin/2009eoy/10-8-2010_aspousa_PeakOilPicture_Skrebowski_C.pdf and his video http://tv.peak-oil.org/chris-skrebowski-the-peak-oil-picture/ in which he uses a list of oil […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/megaprojects_skrebowski_aspo_usa_2007_2015-115x115.jpg "Megaprojects Increments: next oil crunch 2012")
![In its recent submission to Infrastructure Australia, the NSW government acknowledges peak oil but proposes a list of projects which does not reflect its own analysis. We read: “2.8 Planning […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/NSW_Sydney_Submission_August2010_p5-115x115.jpg "NSW government acknowledges peak oil but continues business as usual regardless")
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