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14 Oct, 17 tweets, 3 min read
APPEA webinar with panel representing "the whole value chain" - starting with the Minister. Image
Minister repeating standard tropes - gas firming renewables, domestic consumption, 'sensible market outcomes'.
Minister says "we have a very clear plan on the electricity side, we don't have that on the gas side".

The AEMO ISP says we need less gas, not more.
Minister says he looks forward to working with the industry on the National Gas Infrastructure Plan
Minister says his roadmap, like the APPEA Vision document, 'has multiple horses in the race'. Electrification is only one horse. Gas is a big horse.
Minister says he wants to use the Climate Solutions Fund to back CCS.
Minister says he wants Australains to know everything they do - from the light they turn on to the food they eat - is because of gas.

APPEA boss loves it.
Santos CEO just loves Angus Taylor's tech roadmap and gas fired recovery
Santos CEO incorrectly claiming you need gas to heat homes, provide industrial heat, firm renewables.

Abuses AEMO's ISP, refuses to say ISP shows gas rapidly declining.
Santos CEO talking up its Moomba CCS project "which will benefit from Minister Taylor's announcement" to allow climate solutions fund to back this project
Santos CEO talks up CCS as the fastest and cheapest way to H2 for at least a decade. Urges we go in quickly to get to the market.

Japan/ Korean plans show export market will barely exist for a decade...
APA now talking about putting fossil gas based H2 into their pipelines to prevent their infrastructure from being stranded
APA urging use of 'sunk cost' infrastructure instead of building new infrastructure for renewables.
AGIG is very excited that hydrogen is now a 'thing'. Get ready for Plan A - blending H2 and biogas into the pipelines
AGIG is planning to get its whole gas networks to 10% H2 and wants to offer 100% H2 connections by mid decade.

The prototype projects are called HyP. Image
Santos CEO asked directly and completely ignores the AEMO ISP which shows renewables soaring and gas declining in the lowest cost scenarios. Image
here's the big report they have all been talking about. energynetworks.com.au/projects/gas-v…

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22 Sep
So pleased to at the #NPC listening to Minister Angus Taylor.

And great to share a table with good friends at APPEA.
Minister Taylor talking up Australian emissions which, to reiterate, are not coming down because we have no climate policy. Meanwhile Australia is the world's third largest fossil fuel exporter.
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20 Sep
random stack of cds for the car from the broken hill salvos, including best of the jacksons and whoa

period between "i want you back" and MJ as king of pop includes a huge range of epic tunes.

7m from ballad to funk freakout. 1974!
i didn't realise this was with the jacksons. 1978! MJ composed. year before Off The Wall - which i also didn't realise was his /fifth/ solo album
the jacksons also got right into weird quasi spiritual stuff. this song, by the way, is a certified banger, and this film clip is amazing, although the narrative FX are too loud
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20 Sep
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…
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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.
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10 Sep
Weapons of Gas Destruction - a major new report from me @TheAusInstitute out today.

Australia has a huge amount of gas in the pipeline and in the ground. If it gets burnt, we're all in big trouble.

A thread on some findings. Report here: tai.org.au/content/weapon… Image
Australia is the world's largest LNG exporter and one of the largest fossil gas producers in the world.

Australia caused most of the LNG growth over the last decade and more than any other country over the last 20 years. Image
Australia has rapidly increased its share of world gas production, even faster than it has increased its proven reserves. We've had our foot right down on the gas. Image
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8 Sep
Energy Department admits the 'Tech Roadmap' is full of literal thought bubbles based on 'expert judgement' and not based on analysis.

Favourable treatment of gas vs renewables ensured by assumptions that ignore best modelling.
reneweconomy.com.au/federal-govern…
'expert judgement' with no analysis is a fancy way of saying they made it up.

No wonder they ignored my requests for the underlying assumptions and then fought against my FOI
The Tech Roadmap is essentially a series of these graphs. No numbers, no explanation of how they came up with it. That's a terrible basis for climate policy. Image
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27 Aug
CEFC changes today: government wants to take an organisation that is making a profit for the public by investing inrenewables and energy efficiency, and remodel it so it makes loss by funding fossil fuels. Cool and normal! parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/downl…
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