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Critique of ACIL Tasman’s Liquid Fuel Vulnerability Assessment

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:

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Submission Energy White Paper 2009

This is in response to the public consultation process of the Federal government’s energy white paper in 2009.
http://www.ret.gov.au/energy/facts/white_paper/Pages/energy_white_paper.aspx

Contents:

Chapter 1: Response to Energy White Paper discussion papers
Latest crude oil peak graphs, Australian oil decline, analysis of the IEA’s WEO 2008 (27 mb/d of  new capacity has to be developed by 2015, relative to 2007, just to [...]