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…
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…
New Liberal leader Tony Abbott did not know what peak oil is
Does he know it now? In July 2008, at the Sydney Writer’s Festival http://www.themonthly.com.au/video/2013/03/24/1364105225/future-liberal-party-part-2 Hardly noticed at the time, this is the video of the day in crikey http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/02/peak-oil after Tony Abbott has…
World needs to save at least 3 mbd by 2020 for China to grow
Any volunteers? This is the 2nd post on the best slides shown at the October 2009 ASPO conference http://peak-oil.org/2009-conference-proceedings/ PFC Energy presented a graph showing Chinese oil production arriving at a bumpy…
Sustainable Cities Master Plan
A sustainable city is foremost an energy thrifty city with a minimum of energy used for transport. A good example is the 1976 master plan for Dodoma in Tanzania, an energy poor…
Submission BHP Olympic Dam mine expansion
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 amounts of…
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…