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Posted by Phil Hart on February 25, 2008 - 5:24pm in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Oil production on rise but not enough to meet growing demand
AUSTRALIA's oil production has increased for the first year since 2000 but energy self-sufficiency continues to decline.
Figures published yesterday by industry analyst EnergyQuest show the Australian petroleum sector grew strongly in 2007 as a result of sustained high oil prices, surging global demand for LNG and higher domestic demand for gas-fired generation.
Australia on track to meet Kyoto target
AUSTRALIA is back on track to meet its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol.
A Department of Climate Change audit of greenhouse gas emissions, obtained by The Age, indicates that Australia will meet, but not beat, its Kyoto target of 108% of 1990 emissions during 2008-2012.
Energy Experts To Meet NZ Energy Companies
Key players in the German renewable energy sector arrive in New Zealand this week to meet with local businesses involved in the energy sector and to attend this week’s National Power New Zealand 2008 conference.
PM hears long-lost call of the Left
KEVIN Rudd has been issued with a "progressive left" challenge to drastically accelerate the shift to a republic, introduce a charter of rights, do away with 99-year leases on Aboriginal land, overhaul negative gearing and immediately ban a new coal-fired power plant in NSW.
Suggestions for Labor's first term include taxing the family home, limiting the first-home buyers grant and introducing punitive laws on electricity generation and car emissions.
Air New Zealand passenger numbers get a boost
Hawke's Bay: Generator at Whirinaki is running flat outt
Doubts surround Virgin's breakthrough biofuel flight
It may not have been the longest or fastest flight, but a Virgin airlines Boeing 747 has created a first by making the short hop from London to Amsterdam partly powered on biofuel.
Virgin Atlantic chief Richard Branson sees it as a breakthrough, ushering in a new cleaner, greener era in aviation, but some environmentalists say it invites ecological disaster.
But I prefer the way TV3 in NZ reported the Virgin Biofuel flight: Virgin Atlantic flies on coconuts
Wellington: High oil prices may raise rates and transport costs
Eureka Street: Garnaut shows climate change bigger than politics
Cyclists a hazard, say motorists
More on yesterday's solar power story..
$290m solar future sealed
Mildura power station to help cut emission levels
Shoppers put wallets before environment
Let there be light through regulation, not ownership
What would NSW look like if the Government did not proceed with its plans to secure the state's energy future? No new money for schools and hospitals, perhaps more borrowings despite a global credit crunch, and an out-of-date energy sector that competes with itself for your business.
We simply cannot be constrained by a vocal minority with an expired ideology on utilities. We need to take action now to keep the lights on, keep state finances in the black and keep investing in important public services such as hospitals and schools.
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Wong is Wrong and still Waiting for Garnaut.
It's kinda trippy when the Minister for Climate Change talks like a coal industry hack and the gumbmint's hand picked adviser is barking up the wrong tree, perhaps literally. We have to remember that Rudd promised to be different on climate change. I don't see that Penny Wong is saying much different to Turnbull, namely it's-gunna-be-OK.
Garnaut is banging on about paying the PNG-ians not to cut down forests. Even suppose a few hectares of tropical forest had Australia's name on it that doesn't mean it will absorb increased emissions, merely hold the line. In fact if they raze it they will be responsible for a CO2 surge so paying them is blackmail. Meanwhile they'll be burning other large bits of forest and hope we don't notice.
The higher ups should be getting their lines off the same page by now. Gawd help us if it continues like this.
One from the Otago Dialy Times :
Geothermal heating way of future
I posted on veggieweb (as veggieman) about the lunacy of bio-fuelled jumbos. If you use corn ethanol as a guide for biofuel production then one can grasp the enormous folly of this stuff.
http://veggieweb.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=117&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
We need to nationalise energy development and avoid expensive energy costs. Australia has many remote, fueled generators supplying distant settlements. That will have to change.
I don't trust the accounting behind the Kyoto Protocol. I don't believe in offsetting emissions. We need a massive co2 emission reduction initiative now. Maybe we should call for a referendum on going green, asap, which in the long run would be cheaper.
The idea of using biofuels for aviation is terrible. Just as bad as the new LNG export facility to be built in Queensland that was touted as an emission reduction measure by Anna Bligh. Go figure!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiative