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Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng) Sydney

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  • 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 […]

    Submission BHP Olympic Dam mine expansion

    Posted on August 6, 2009 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Australia in last quarter of its oil age

    Posted on July 31, 2009 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Critique ACIL Tasman liquid fuel vulnerability

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    XPT Sydney – Coffs Harbour vs. Pacific Highway Upgrade

    Posted on April 1, 2009 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Submission 69 to the Senate Inquiry on oil supplies

    Posted on February 24, 2006 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    How Cross City Tunnel planners ignored Peak Oil

    Posted on January 8, 2006 | No Comments
    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 […]

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  • The Howard government released its energy white paper “Securing Australia’s Energy Future”  in June 2004 http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10052/20050221-0000/www.dpmc.gov.au/publications/energy_future/docs/energy.pdf It contained 2 totally flawed statements: (1) “Despite increasing demand for oil, there are […]

    Critique of Energy White Paper June 2004

    Posted on November 8, 2004 | No Comments
    The Howard government released its energy white paper “Securing Australia’s Energy Future”  in June 2004 http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10052/20050221-0000/www.dpmc.gov.au/publications/energy_future/docs/energy.pdf It contained 2 totally flawed statements: (1) “Despite increasing demand for oil, there are […]

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