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 here is…
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…