{"id":27042,"date":"2017-10-20T06:49:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27042"},"modified":"2017-10-20T06:49:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T11:49:24","slug":"australias-east-coast-gas-crisis-will-be-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27042","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s east coast gas crisis will be permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s east coast gas crisis will be permanent<\/a><\/h3>\n
Australia comes up with yet another grand energy policy in which gas is supposed to deliver dispatchable (peak) power. From the Prime Minister\u2019s website:<\/div>\n
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NATIONAL ENERGY GUARANTEE TO DELIVER AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE ELECTRICITY<\/p>\n

17\/10\/2017<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026.delivering more gas for Australians before it\u2019s shipped offshore\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Turnbull_NEG\"
\nFig 1: Turnbull\u2019s game changer and level playing field. Convincing?
\nhttps:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/media\/2017-10-17\/national-energy-guarantee-deliver-affordable-reliable-electricity<\/a><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see how this miracle was achieved. The year 2017 didn\u2019t start well. In February NSW had load shedding of 300 MW for a couple of peak hrs during which an aluminium smelter had to be partially turned off.<\/p>\n

14 Feb 2017 NSW\u2019s privatized giveaway coal plant causes load shedding in extreme weather
\nhttp:\/\/crudeoilpeak.info\/nsws-privatized-giveaway-coal-plant-causes-load-shedding-in-extreme-weather<\/a><\/p>\n

Turnbull\u2019s gas walks to Canossa<\/h4>\n

Historical context:<\/strong> Prime Minister Turnbull, as Environment Minister under Howard, approved massive LNG export projects from Western Australia without a national domgas policy in place including imposing on the gas industry a condition to build a pipeline to the east, where conventional gas reserves were already known to be limited, as described in this excerpt from Howard\u2019s energy white paper 2004:<\/p>\n

\"EWP_2004_Howard_on_gas\"<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s east coast gas crisis will be permanent Australia comes up with yet another grand energy policy in which gas is supposed to deliver dispatchable (peak) power. From the Prime Minister\u2019s website: NATIONAL ENERGY GUARANTEE TO DELIVER AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE ELECTRICITY 17\/10\/2017 \u201c\u2026.delivering more gas for Australians before it\u2019s shipped offshore\u201d Fig 1: Turnbull\u2019s game changer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,6292,1103,2460,554],"class_list":["post-27042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-crude-oil-peak","tag-electricity","tag-energy-policy","tag-natural-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27043,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27042\/revisions\/27043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}