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Review: Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil – Royce
Kurmelovs (University of Queensland Press)
If Australia was a small developing country, then the ability of the oil and
gas industry to exploit our political system, and in turn our natural
resources, would make perfect sense. Most people have read stories of
multinational companies bending the domestic policies of developing countries
to suit the interests of the fossil fuel industry.
Few people would believe that a country like Australia would fall for the same
tricks. But as freelance journalist Royce Kurmelovs points out in his new book
Slick: Australia’s Toxic Relationship with Big Oil, most people underestimate
just how far in advance the fossil fuel industry plans not only its new
projects, but its PR and lobbying efforts, as well.
Australia is the world’s third-largest fossil fuel exporter. Our exports of
liquified natural gas (LNG) are currently behind only Qatar and the United
States. But what is most remarkable about the scale of Australia’s gas exports
is how rapidly they have grown in recent years.
As Paris was planning to host the 2015 climate conference, at which the world
would commit to limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the oil
industry was working on an ambitious plan to increase Australia’s gas exports
by more than 300%, a plan it accomplished. From 1990 to 2010, Australian gas
production tripled; from 2010 to 2019, it tripled again."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
