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The problem with this gabfest is that advocates of bigger coal terminals and six line freeways will come across as hairy chested. Peak oilers will come across as dweeby and pathetic. They will however get the last laugh. Perhaps someone should fly the flag without investing too much emotional energy. As Monbiot points out people don't like the obvious being pointed to them so let the message seep in quietly.
I have to concur that our new feds seem to have their own agenda. Looking at the website http://www.garnautreview.org.au/CA25734E0016A131/pages/about
from which will spring our carbon trading system I get more of an impression of an academic junket than a planetary emergency. With possible apologies to Carbonsink I could point out they while they bring out a Kiwi to lecture publicly on tree planting offsets, they could equally have brought out someone from the EU to argue the opposite.
It might take a while for this new love interest Bureaucrats heart Kevin to lose its shine.
Our greatest problem is the innumeracy of politicians who think that our reserves of 750.6 billion cubic metres is a lot of gas. If you took an informal poll of our pollies and gave them the number and asked what percentage of global reserves it represents I wager that the answer would be between 25% and 50%!! Well ye know it's a bloody big number!!!
None would think that the new field found in Iran represents a little under half of our proven gas reserves and certainly none would understand we have so little gas that it represents only .43 of ONE PERCENT of global gas reserves - and I understand about half is already contracted to China. By the way the CIA factbook recently has downgraded our gas reserves a little over 8.5%!!!!
Governance for the good of the nation? Well I suppose I ask too much! Arn't they there to just ride the election cycle??
We may only have 0.43% of world gas reserves - but we're on our way to be the world's second largest gas exporter.
For a short while...
Solo, agree on this point. STCWA & ASPO have directly briefed Premier Gallop and then-Resources Minister Carpenter & Treasurer Ripper in the past 3 years and NONE realised our gas reserves were less than 1% of world reserves- and they are running Western Australia!