[Peakoil] Australia must plan for oil-free future: Senator

[Antony Barry]

Australia must plan for oil-free future: Senator

The Federal Government has been urged to start planning for the  
imminent decline in world oil supplies.

The call comes from the outgoing chair of the Senate's Rural and  
Regional Affairs Committee, Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.

The committee has spent the past nine months examining Australia's  
oil supply.

Senator Siewert has tabled her interim report, and says all sides of  
the debate agree that declining world oil supplies are cause for  
concern.

"The committee feels that Australia should be planning for it now, as  
has Sweden with its plan to be oil-free by 2020," she said.

"The committee also felt that it is clear that gas should be also  
carefully looked at and that there was also a need for longer-term  
planning."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1735109.htm


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