[Peakoil] [Peakoil-announce] ACT minister invokes Peak Oil to justify policy

[Mike Hettinger]

Interesting. The bill for the Majura Parkway is similar to that for the
GDE. So that makes it on the order of $600M of public money spent on two
new roads. Not very Peak-Oil-aware.

A scaled-down Majura Parkway alone (no GDE) would have saved a lot of
public money, which then could have been used for more Peak-Oil-aware
options.
 On Aug 3, 2013 8:38 PM, "Alex Pollard" <alex-po at trevbus.org> wrote:

> Something of a breakthrough - An ACT Minister has explicitly invoked Peak
> Oil to justify a transport policy:
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> http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/our-roads-streets-ahead-20130802-2r58d.html
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> "Although he is the ultimate ''go-to guy'' for the $288 million Majura
> Parkway development, Canberra's most ambitious piece of road building in
> years, Mr Rattenbury said more and bigger roads were not a truly long-term
> answer to Canberra's future transport needs when scenarios such as peak
> oil are considered. Peak oil is based on the premise that oil is a finite
> resource and there will come a day when annual production begins to fall."
>
> Alex Pollard
>
> Secretary
> ACT Peak Oil Inc.
>
> O4O4873828
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