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<b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b>
Burmester, Tom <br>
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<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Tuesday, 15 February 2011 2:39 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ACT
Greens<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
ACT Greens Media: Not a peep on peak oil: Greens call for
strategy
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><i><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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February 2011</span></font></i></em><i><font size="2"
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Greens
Planning and TAMS spokesperson, Caroline Le Couteur, says
that Canberra is likely to start feeling major impacts of
peak oil<strong><b><font face="Arial"><span
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</span></font></b></strong>in the next ten years,
yet the Government has no strategy and is largely ignoring
the problem.
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">’</span></font><font
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font-family: Helvetica;">Peak oil’ describes the point in
time when the worldwide production of oil is maximised,
meaning the supply of oil will plateau and fall, bringing
serious problems and disruptions.<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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style="font-family: Helvetica;">[1]</span></font></span></a><span
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style="font-family: Helvetica;">[1]</span></font></span>
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style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">“It’s
incredible that
<i><span style="font-style: italic;">there is not a single
reference</span></i> to ‘peak oil’ in any of the
Government’s major planning, transport, infrastructure or
climate change plans”, said Caroline Le Couteur.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">“Canberra is
vulnerable to peak oil. We’re talking about problems like
decreased mobility, disruptions to the supply chain, cost
of living increases, and significant impacts on residents
in Canberra’s outer suburbs, who are highly vulnerable to
high fuel prices.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">“In question
time today, Mr Stanhope failed to point to any coordinated
Government effort to prepare Canberra for the impending
problems of peak oil’.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">“The Liberal
Party demonstrated their lack of concern for impending
cost of living impacts on Canberra families by scoffing
and heckling at the Greens’ questions.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">“As a recent
series of experts’ reports pointed out, Queensland has a
program of policy work to address the problem of peak oil,
but the ACT is failing to address petroleum security
issues or their consequences.”<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="" style=""><span
class="MsoFootnoteReference"><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family: Arial;">[2][2]</span></font></span></a></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">”The Greens
are calling on the ACT Government to immediately develop
an ACT plan to respond to the challenge of peak oil and
ensure Canberra can become a thriving, resilient and
sustainable community when we no longer rely on oil. </span></font></p>
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“The Greens have concrete proposals to transform Canberra
into a resilient, sustainable city. We will continue to
push the Government to accept and prepare for the reality
of peak oil scenarios in Canberra,” Ms Le Couteur said.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><b><font size="2" face="Arial"><span
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CONTACT:
Tom Burmester– 0423 657 561</span></font></b></strong><font
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font-family: Arial;"> ACT Legislative Assembly GPO
Box 1020, Canberra ACT 2601</span></font><br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="#_ftnref1"
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New Roman"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">[1][1]</span></font></span></a><font
size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> See: The Australia
Institute, <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Running
on empty? The peak oil debate</span></i>, September
2010
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tai.org.au/file.php?file=/media_releases/PB%2016%20Peak%20oil%20final.pdf">https://www.tai.org.au/file.php?file=/media_releases/PB%2016%20Peak%20oil%20final.pdf</a>)</span></font></p>
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size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> The series of papers
on Australian cities and peak oil is published in
Australian Planner, the national journal published by the
Planning Institute of Australia.
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.planning.org.au/documents/item/2393">http://www.planning.org.au/documents/item/2393</a>)</span></font></p>
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