[Peakoil] Geosequestration inquiry another ad hoc energy decision: Greens

[Antony Barry]

Peakers

Increasingly I think the government is starting to think about peak  
oil but they probably think we have 30 years to get ready. An  
implicit strategy in what is going on at the moment is the use of  
coal to oil technology with geosequestration to hold back the carbon  
as a longer term strategy and nuclear in the shorter term to cut back  
on coal usage.

Tony

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> From: "Willis, Katrina (Sen C. Milne)" <Katrina.Willis at aph.gov.au>
> Date: 30 June 2006 1:23:12 PM
> To: <media at lists.greens.org.au>
> Subject: [Greens-Media] MEDIA RELEASE - Geosequestration inquiry  
> another ad hoc energy decision: Greens
>
> MEDIA RELEASE
>
> Friday, 30 June 2006
>
> Geosequestration inquiry another ad hoc energy decision: Greens
>
> The federal inquiry into geosequestration announced today is  
> another ad
> hoc energy decision by the Howard government in response to a spooked
> coal industry, the Australian Greens said.
>
> "The coal industry had been spooked by Prime Minister John Howard's
> support for nuclear energy, and the fact that nuclear power is not
> competitive with coal unless the government puts a price on carbon,"
> Greens energy spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said in Sydney.
>
> "The Science Minister has now requested this investigation to placate
> coal interests.
>
> "It demonstrates the stupidity of the government's ad hoc approach to
> energy security and climate change. What we need is a holistic view,
> like the inquiry the Greens moved for in the Senate this month, which
> both Labor and Liberal voted down.
>
> "The Cooperative Research Centre for Coal in Sustainable Development
> commissioned a report that showed solar thermal power could be cost
> competitive with coal-fired electricity by the year 2013 yet the
> government continues to ignore renewables.
>
> "The government needs to stop having ad hoc inquiries - nuclear power
> one week, geosequestration the next - and develop an integrated energy
> and industry policy that addresses energy security and greenhouse gas
> reductions, and which includes the role that renewable energy can play
> in Australia."
>
>
> Contact: Katrina Willis 03 6234 4566 or 0437 587 562
>
>
> Katrina Willis
> Adviser
> Senator Christine Milne
> Phone 03 6234 4566
> Fax 03 6234 2144
> Mobile 0437 587 562
> www.christinemilne.org.au
>
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