The Australian Financial Review (6/4/2010) published my following letter: Middle East war games and our oil vulnerability In the last days the New York Times had 2 articles on war games in…
Category: Australia
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…
Which bank would now finance more road tunnels?
No lessons learned from the financial collapse of the Lane Cove Tunnel? Summary: Only days after the financial collapse of the Lane Cove Tunnel the NSW government continues to plan road tunnels….
Peak oil brought forward moment of truth for Lane Cove Tunnel
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…
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…
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…
Critique of Energy White Paper June 2004
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 sufficient reserves…