[Peakoil] RE: [Peakoil-announce] Forum: Are we running out of oil?

[Adrian Whitehead]

Sorry cant make it got the cons council executive meeting to attend - good
to get people along and either argue the point or see what spin the govt is
pushing.

People could use Anderson's quotes

>From futureenergy.org....

Oil Crisis Acknowledged
Comments by the Queensland Greens Senate candidate in early May resulted in
the Federal Government's first acknowledgement of the oil crisis. Here is
the sequence of media events that lead to this acknowledgement. 

May 9th - Queensland Greens Senate Candidate Drew Hutton: 
"If we keep going on as we are believing that this stuff (oil) is never
going to run out or it's never going to get too expensive for us to use,
then we're living in a fool's paradise," 
May 9th - Deputy PM John Anderson's spokesperson: 
"The Greens like the idea of catastrophe, it didn't happen in the 1970s
(when they first predicted one) and it won't happen now," 
Anderson 7 days later... 
". . . the very real prospect that at some stage in the next few short years
global [oil] production may very well peak . . ." 

http://www.futureenergy.org/infopolluting.html#oil 

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From: peakoil-announce-bounces+adrian=ecoaction.net.au at act-peakoil.org
[mailto:peakoil-announce-bounces+adrian=ecoaction.net.au at act-peakoil.org] On
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Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2005 9:03 PM
To: Adrian Whitehead
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Subject: [Peakoil-announce] Forum: Are we running out of oil?

The local branch of Engineers Australia is hosting the following forum on
April 5. Anyone can RSVP for it.

See you there!


Alex P

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Engineers Australia Canberra Division Technical Presentation

Organised by: Management in Engineering Branch

Tuesday 5 April 2005 - 5.30 for 6.00pm
 
Venue:  Engineering House, 11 National Cir, Barton

Topic: Are We Running Out of Oil?

Speaker: Lyn Martin - Senior Research Analyst in the Bureau of Transport and
Regional Economics and member of the Deputy Prime Minister's research group
analysing transport and regional issues.

Lyn's professional career has been extremely varied; evaluating water
projects; fisheries management programs; formulating the role of the
government in the arts; rural research; in specific programs such as the
Brucellosis and Tuberculosis Eradication Campaign, and the Pharmaceutical
Benefits Scheme. More recently, Lyn has worked on issues relating to the
external costs of transport with particular interest in greenhouse policy
options for transport and congestion pricing.

RSVP: blowe at engineersaustralia.org.au or phone 6273 1314

Engineers Australia
Canberra Division
Phone 6273 1314



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