My submission to the Metropolitan Transport Plan proposal
http://www.nsw.gov.au/metropolitantransportplan
is here:
26/5/2010 Comments on Metropolitan Transport Plan
http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/pdfs/37
Contents of this PDF file:
Summary
1 Time table of events 2010 – 2020
2 Why the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy is totally flawed
2.1 Population Scenarios
2.2 Planning hierarchy omits resource analysis
2.3 Financial crisis will not go away
2.4 Cancellation of Epping – Parramatta rail link
3 Why we’ll [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald is conducting an inquiry into public transport in Sydney.
http://www.transportpublicinquiry.com.au/
This is the summary of my submission:
The 1st phase of peak oil, which started in 2005 at around 74 mb/d and which triggered the GFC in the 2008 oil crunch, has resulted in a demand destruction of 5 mb/d in OECD countries. We [...]
In response to a call for comments on the proposed CBD Metro in Sydney
http://www.sydneymetro.nsw.gov.au/
I wrote a submission entitled “Too late for metro tunnels” showing the timelines for an estimated WA crude oil production and construction activities.
The submission can be downloaded here:
CBD Metro [7.85 MB]
These are the recommendations:
1 The government (Parliamentarians, top civil servants) need to attend [...]
This submission was written for the Australian Senate Select Committee on Fuel and Energy
http://www.aph.gov.au/SENATE/committee/fuelenergy_ctte/index.htm
The case is made that the global peaking of crude oil production has happened 2005-2008. This triggered the financial crisis in a banking sector which had a pre-condition of accumulated debt. The recession which was to be expected after peak oil has [...]
The public consultation process of the Energy White Paper has skillfully pushed the peak oil issue out of its terms of reference and tucked it away under “related pages” in an assessment of Australia’s Liquid Fuel Vulnerability, a report prepared by ACIL Tasman.
http://www.ret.gov.au/energy/energy_security/emergency_response/liquid_fuel_emergency/lfe_vulnerability/Pages/lfe_vulnerability.aspx
These are the main problems with this report:
Outdated
(1) It was outdated the very [...]
