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…
APEC energy intensity reductions: what it means for Australian oil consumption
At the APEC summit in November 2011 we find in the Honolulu declaration under “Promoting green growth”: We will also take the following steps to promote our green growth goals: Aspire to…
System dynamics peak oil, financial and CO2 debt, ME geopolitics
(A) Why is the timeline for an orderly transition just 10 years? Oil: We have missed implementation windows for peak oil mitigation long ago: In Australia: “Yes, Prime Minister”, peak oil 2006…
Qantas hit by invisible hand of peak oil
Qantas grounds all flights 29/10/2011 http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/qantas-grounds-all-flights-20111029-1mpao.html These problems don’t come unexpectedly Qantas cuts staff, flights to counter fuel price hit 30/3/2011 “The price of Singapore jet fuel has risen from around $US88…
Australia beats them all – in oil imports
Among OECD countries Australia is #1 in increasing its net oil imports over the last decade, for some a proud, for others a sad achievement. Federal Resource Minister Martin Ferguson told me…
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…
Australia’s natural gas squandered in LNG exports
East Coast Part 1 Oil crunch in year x: truck in a convoy of consequences for Canberra LNG export terminal in Gladstone Going…..going……gone Contents (1) The national gas supply context (2) Conventional…
Net crude oil exports – the shrinking commodity
Total crude oil exports peaked at 44.4 mb/d in 2005 and declined by 3.1 mb/d to 41.3 mb/d in 2009, double the rate at which crude production declined during the same period…
Australian Senate ignores 80pc depletion level of crude oil
Australian Senators continue to ignore oil depletion facts Extract from the Hansard, 14/9/2011 Senator MARK BISHOP (Western Australia) (17:20): ……….With our vast resources and rapidly expanding oil and gas sector we…
NSW budget 2011_12 does not increase oil use productivity
The NSW government went into a deficit of $718 m for the budget year 2011/12 while at the same time wasting billions on highway duplication projects conceived 10 years ago, without checking…