Posted October 19th, 2007
Interesting piece in Online Opinion.
Australia is on a long list of oil producing countries that have already passed peak oil production. In our case, production peaked in the year 2000. While several new oil projects on the North West Shelf will see modest increases in domestic production for the next few years, by 2015 Australia […]
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Posted June 21st, 2007
A couple of night ago Lateline Business hosted an interesting interview with Dr Roger Bezdek on Peak Oil.
ALI MOORE: That said, there have long been predictions, haven’t there, of the imminent depletion of oil supplies. It was said it would happen in the ’70s and it didn’t. The man who came up with the […]
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Posted June 11th, 2007
Wired brings visual context to the rough price (USD) of petrol around the world. As expected Australia has nothing to complain about; sitting more or less in the middle of the table. Not bad for a country that is in serious decline as a producer.
I’ve written before on the silly populist auction currently being […]
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Posted May 30th, 2007
Regular readers would know that though it’s a complex and contested idea I have a lot of time for Peak Oil theory. Of course it’s not a question of if we will ever run out of the black stuff, more a question of what can replace it in our lives, and what do we do […]
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Posted May 28th, 2007
Recently, the ABC’s excellent Catalyst science show featured a full evening of programming on energy, environment and solutions, including a People Power segment on Sydney’s bike bus initiative . This You Tube grab is well worth a watch and not just because it features the tireless Fiona Campbell, in fact, an initiative like the […]
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Posted February 13th, 2007
After a self imposed day off from blogging yesterday I’m just catching up on some items that caught my interest. Like rust, the feed reader and media cycle doesn’t sleep.
There was this analysis in yesterday’s Australian business section of the senate report into Australia’s energy security.
The federal Government in its 2004 energy white paper […]
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Posted February 8th, 2007
The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has published it’s final report into Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels. The Executive Summary is a good place to start, but more interesting is the demand side response which offers a number of prescriptions to deal with energy shortfall with one of the […]
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Posted January 26th, 2007
Just a quick follow up to my earlier post on petrol pricing.
The Telegraph is claiming victory and applauding itself in it’s populist (dare I say socialist?) attempt to get petrol prices reduced for the Australia Day long weekend.
Sydney motorists won a long-weekend petrol price reprieve yesterday as Prime Minister John Howard added his voice to […]
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Posted January 25th, 2007
At the moment you can’t avoid the wingeing of motorists and their representatives, not to mention the populist ranting of the Daily Telegraph on the issue of petrol pricing. Amusingly everyone is asking for big oil to be named and shamed - how you do that to an industry that has proven to be shameless […]
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Posted September 10th, 2006
The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Committee has wrapped up it’s hearings on Australia’s future oil supply and alternative transport fuels and have released an online report on their discussions. It’s an interesting read and notable in that it’s at least a somewhat official recognition of the Peak Oil issue amongst Govt circles.
My […]
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