[Peakoil-announce] Dr Bakhtiari has passed away

[Alex Pollard]

Hi folks,

Some sad news, Dr Bakhtiari has died.

http://www.energybulletin.net/37662.html

I met Dr Bakhtiari when he spoke at a forum organised by the Bureau of 
Transport and Regional Economics in April 2005.

http://act-peakoil.org/pipermail/peakoil-announce/2005-May/000024.html
http://www.btre.gov.au/info.aspx?ResourceId=96&NodeId=59

He had some interesting perspectives, for instance he supported what the US 
was doing in Iraq! I'm not sure how much that was him being diplomatic, or 
loyalty to Iran, or his opposition to the hardline muslims like those who 
control Iran. Of course the hardliners have been advantaged by the war on 
Iraq.

He told me that they had tracked him as far as Perth but didn't know he was 
in Canberra.

I also asked him about the contracts Australia had signed committing to 
selling oil and gas resources to China and so forth, given that we may need 
the scarce resources ourselves. He responded saying the contracts were just 
bits of paper and could be torn up!

He later returned to Australia to give some pretty frank evidence before 
the Senate Peak Oil inquiry.


Alex Pollard
O4O4873828

ACT Peak Oil
http://act-peakoil.org