[Peakoil] Article on the Australian Goverment's attempt to cover up a comprehensive peak oil report

[Alex Pollard]

The Daily Telegraph's Akerman is attacking the govt over its suppression
of a Peak Oil report - maybe now the issue will be addressed seriously?

Alex

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Subject: [roeoz] Article on the Australian Goverments attempt to cover up
a comprehensive peak oil report
From:    "Michael Lardelli" <michael.lardelli at adelaide.edu.au>
Date:    Fri, January 20, 2012 14:38
To:      michael.lardelli at adelaide.edu.au
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Dear All,

This is a really important article published by the Daily Telegraph since it
is the first widespread publicity for the fact that the Australian
government has made a very comprehensive study of future oil supply (over
430 pages long!) including its own detailed analysis of data and their
conclusions are closely consistent with the work of Prof. Kjell Aleklett of
Sweden. They predict a decline in oil supply within a few years. The scandal
is that the government has, subsequently, tried to cover up the existence of
the report. (After all, any open admission that oil decline is imminent
would then require them to tell us what they are going to do about it.)
Interestingly, the report comes to many of the same conclusions about why
the IEA's prognoses are inaccurate as Aleklett's "Peak of the Oil Age"
paper. Most distressingly, the report was prepared in 2009 but its existence
has only now gained widespread attention.

You can find the Daily Telegraph article at:


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-evidence-of-this-treachery
-went-down-the-memory-hole/story-e6frezz0-1226248729853

or

http://tinyurl.com/6tzroko

and you can download the report at:

www.manicore.com/fichiers/Australian_Govt_Oil_supply_trends.pdf

Regards,

Michael Lardelli
(P.S. Well done Matt Mushalik whom I believe pushed for publicity on the
report)