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8 comments on The Bullroarer - Sunday 13 January 2008
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If some Kiwi farmers can threaten a short stretch of transmission line it doesn't bode well for the proposed Morocco to Europe HVDC line. Also given that the Dakar rally was threatened in another part of northern Africa. The theory was that Moroccan solar power could be reliably sent to cloudy Europe.
If the natural gas shortage in WA means they swear on a stack of Bibles they will implement clean coal it looks like other States will have to fend for themselves. The more credible coal phase-out plans had WA gas going to the eastern seaboard.
Silver bullets are looking increasingly like damp squibs.
The Waikato farmers can email, text, and chat all they want about terroristic fantasies. The SIS is listening very intently. When the government has enough incriminating evidence, the commandos will swoop in as they did upon the Tuhoe. Then Helen Clark will finally be able to use the 2002 terrorism act for prosecutions.
I think the paper was beating that bit up a lot - in the rest of the article the locals sounded fairly level headed.
I going to cover the WA / Australia natural gas topic in a lot of detail at some point - I haven't got around to assembling that post yet unfortunately.
WA isn't short of gas - it has a shortage of gas destined for the local market (plus the recent disruption to all North West Shelf output thanks to some mechanical problems at the Burrup).
This is eventually going to cause political problems for both state and national governments if they don't get cracking on some serious renewables programs.