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Sep 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Andrew Liveris, of "subsidise gas for plastics and chemicals" infamy, is a director of the Saudi Arabian oil company. New FOI docs show his work for NCC was secretly backed by a lobbying firm that was working for the Saudi govt. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Liveris is also on the board of Worley Parsons, Australia's largest oil and gas services company. The head of the lobbying firm, Dragoman, was also registered as a lobbyist for Worley.
The head of Dragoman, Tom Harley, used to chair the Menzies Institute, the main Liberal Party think tank.

Liveris also has a position at Dragoman.
Dragoman is mostly a private political strategy and lobbying firm, but have some public policy commentaries. Including many calling for more gas, and interestingly some by others who went on to appointment at the NCC, including Halton and Combet.
Here are the commentaries, and the website, via the Wayback machine, as the Dragoman website seems curiously offline web.archive.org/web/2019091909…
"A dragoman was an interpreter, translator, and official guide between Turkish, Arabic, and Persian-speaking countries and polities of the Middle East and European embassies, consulates, vice-consulates and trading posts." From 13C onwards

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoman Image

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Feb 18, 2023
Late night trawling of govt energy and emissions docs. A lazy unplanned thread👇
This was the newish Labor's govt's emissions projections in Dec 2022. "Additional measures" the estimated impact of govt policy.

Small size of the cut speaks for itself, but note also it doesn't get to the target.

(projections are dodgy. just saying)
We're now all [ish] finally paying attention to the "safeguard mechanism".

The last emissions projections assumed it would reduce emissions from covered facilities "pro rata" ie 43%.

The govt has now declared it will do only 30% under SGM facilities.
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Nov 26, 2021
A year and a half after the govt put gas executives in charge of the COVID Commission, and weeks after COP26, we have today a new national plan to subsidise gas pipelines across Australia.

Here's the report, lowlights threaded

energy.gov.au/publications/2…
From the exec summary "Gas supplies are likely to fall short of domestic ///and export/// demand by the end of the decade if further action to unlock supply and deliver key infrastructure is not taken by industry"

Ie - subsidies to prop up bad investments in export terminals
Notorious non tax paying Santos has made clear that its interest in the Beetaloo is focused on exports.

Why on earth would we subsidise that?
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Nov 24, 2021
higher petrol prices must have people thinking more about EVs. does anyone know, or have a simple modelling tool, for how much petrol prices impact the payback period for EVs?
obviously depends on lots of things - better fuel economy of alternative means less impact, amount of kms driven means more impact, etc.
and whether you are using real time pricing or own supply solar to charge
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Aug 24, 2021
Report just dropped, into the Beetaloo gas grants scheme and the #RortFiredRecovery. Rolling thread as I work through it parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/downl…
This report is a majority report, backed by the Labor and Greens Senators.

Straight off the bat:
If gas companies getting subsidies for exploration go on to make a lot of money, they should have to pay the subsidies back.
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Aug 24, 2021
Guardian blog reporting that Labor will vote to SUPPORT the government's Beetaloo #RortFiredRecovery

$21m to a company
- neck deep in the Liberal party,
- wined and dined Taylor and his head fundraiser,
- NT govt said was not eligible for the $

backed by ALP.
Senate has the chance to stop this rort to Liberal mates. Is the ALP really going to support it? #RortFiredRecovery

thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…
Want the sordid timeline? All information here came out through a Senate inquiry backed by the ALP. reneweconomy.com.au/timeline-to-ga…
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Aug 22, 2021
Clearest explanation I've heard of what Doherty modelling actually says and doesn't say just now from ACT Chief Minister.

Will be months before thresholds met and even then, "Broad brush talk of 'open up' does not mean there will no public health response".
Also, crucially, we are not starting from where the modelling starts - it assumes no/ v low outbreaks, not current situation
All journalists covering covid response should watch the ACT pressers. Beyond the local matters, super clear explanation of the national situation, calling out misunderstandings without blaming others
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