Australia, wanting to project itself as the energy super power, faces domestic gas shortages in its Premier State, New South Wales. This is what the public is made aware of in articles…
Howard’s wrong decisions on offshore gas exports start to hit transport sector now
The trucking company 1st Fleet has gone into voluntary administration. Only months of checking the books by the administrator de Vries Tayeh will reveal why that happened but following factors may be…
NSW Transport Master Plan debates conventional oil peak 2006, assumes continuing oil age
In a discussion paper on a Transport Master Plan, released on 24/2/2012 and for which submissions closed in the last week of April, the NSW government thinks it can still debate the…
Fry and fly – the new era of sustainable aviation
Less than 6 years after an Australian senior energy bureaucrat announced in a Parliamentary hearing that new technologies can overcome peak oil (“if the price of eggs is high enough, even the…
Australian ABC TV falls into oil and climate trap of unconventional oil
First it was Alan Kohler getting his ideas from a Citi bank report on the death of peak oil, now it is Tony Jones accepting advice from peak oil denier Yergin that…
Proudly powered by oil shale
Science or fiction? Here, ABC TV star journalist A. Kohler is seen testing synthetic fuel produced from Australia’s vast deposits of kerogen (graphics: Ian McPherson) It is more than a month ago…
Desperate times: Trucking shale oil in North Dakota
How desperate the oil supply situation in the US has become after global crude oil production started to peak in 2005 can be seen from how cumbersome it is to produce and…
No number crunching in Alan Kohler opinion piece on premature peak oil death
This article is on Alan Kohler ‘s piece “The death of peak oil” http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-02-29/kohler-oil-reserves-shift-global-markets/3859118 Contents: (1) Too many peaks to handle (2) US shale oil production and projections (3) Tough structural transformations…
Australian government kicks own goals in Senate peak oil debate (peaky leaks part 3)
Read about the bizarre proceedings during the February 2012 budget estimate hearings in the Australian Senate. Capital Hill in Canberra seemed to be more remote than ever from the reality of oil…
Car addicted Sindney destroys bus ramp near rail hub as tollway debt increases 60 pct at least
This web-site continues to monitor the disconnect between toll-way expansions in Australia and global crude oil supplies. The latest peak-oil ignorant action in car-addicted Sydney is the demolition of a bus ramp…