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Huge blowout in NZ oil import cost

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 2 November 2011 - 1:13pm | Blog entry

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Oil Price Response Plan For New Zealand Ignored

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 17 March 2011 - 1:27pm | updated 17 Mar 2011 | Blog entry

Prime Minister John Key's only response to rapidly rising oil prices has been to say "the government is powerless - there is nothing we can do". Not so. » Read more

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NZ's oil policy based on flawed forecasts

Submitted by Denis Tegg on 5 March 2011 - 1:46pm | Blog entry

Independent oil experts have been saying for many years that the New Zealand government's almost religious reliance on forecasts of the International Energy Agency (IEA) is a big mistake because they have been consistently and grossly over optimistic. The result has been a decade of lost opportunities to prepare for the looming oil shocks and shortages. » Read more

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NZ Draft Energy Strategy - a charade

Submitted by oildepletionz on 2 September 2010 - 10:47pm | Blog entry

I read the governments Draft Energy Strategy  and discovered that apart from a bland statement that oil prices will rise and be volatile, it fails to identify the risks to New Zealand's energy security. There is no discussion in the DES about the threats to New Zealand of oil scarcity arising from global oil depletion and no analysis of the potentially devastating impacts on the New Zealand economy from scarcity and/or higher oil prices. Nor does it discuss how soon these threats might arise. For example could they occur within one year, five years, 10 years, or longer? » Read more

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Over a barrel - a new vision needed

Submitted by senjmito on 23 July 2008 - 1:21pm | updated 23 Jul 2008 | Story

 

This is the text of the feature article I had published in the Dominion Post on Monday. Feel free to quote or distribute it as needed.

 

Regards

Tim Jones

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