1 year ago the Australian Federal Government refused to table their internal peak oil report BITRE 117 before a Senate hearing on the grounds that the report was not “up to scratch”….
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South East Asian oil peak in the rear view mirror (part 1)
The title of this post refers to a term first used by the late Matt Simmons (2005 book “The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy”) Grandiose statements about the “Asian…
Iran’s 2nd and last oil peak
“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in Tehran that Iran has become addicted to selling crude oil and the time has come that the country voluntarily shut down some of its…
Poor peak oil preparation rating for NSW budget 2012
Oil prices are now 5-6 times higher than in the late 1990s and 3-4 times higher than in the early 2000s before peak oil started in 2005. Now, do governments implement a…
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…
Australian peak oil report ignored for urgent Sydney-Canberra rail upgrade (peaky leaks part2)
Propeller has stalled in flight, but rail development for Canberra hasn’t even taken off 3/2/2012 “The Nation’s transport boss has been caught up in a mid-air drama above Canberra with a Qantas…
M2 concession period extends into era of steep oil decline
What has been overlooked in Alan Jone’s 2GB campaign on the dumped BITRE report 117 http://ianmcpherson.com/blog/audio/jones_bitre_25-01-2012.mp3 is that concession periods of toll-ways extend far into the era of steep oil declines shown…
Australian Peaky Leaks goes mainstream
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-evidence-of-this-treachery-went-down-the-memory-hole/story-e6frezz0-1226248729853 The Australian Daily Telegraph published today a story on a leaked government report (BITRE 117) which (optimistically) calculated peak oil around 2017, followed by permanent decline The report can be downloaded…