Thanks Lee,
in Victoria we are running out of gas.   

Bobby. wrote on Mar 31^st, 2024 at 2:51pm:


Nope. There is plenty of gas there. The Vic Government doesn't want it extracted. A totally different scenario.

New Hope chairman Robert Millner says the coal miner is relieved more than a decade of lawfare around a mine expansion has come to an end but has issued a dire warning about the impact bureaucracy and approval delays are having on the Australian economy.

The billionaire investor spoke out after the Oakey Coal Action Alliance – represented by the taxpayer-funded Environmental Defender’s Office – waved the white flag in along and bitter legal battle over the New Acland stage 3 expansion in Queensland’s Darling Downs.

New Hope spent more than $100m over the past decade fighting opponents of the New Acland stage 3 expansion.

The Alliance said it was a tough decision to end its legal fight and vowed to maintain the rage against mining projects in an effort to protect farmland and water supplies.

“We are down but not out. We will continue to oppose further expansion of inappropriate mining in closely settled agricultural districts” Alliance secretary Paul King said.

It appears the Alliance, a registered charity, ran out of money to keep fighting despite the EDO representation, and was worried about having substantial costs awarded against it if unsuccessful in an appeal over a water licence for the New Acland mine.
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Mr Millner said red and green tape and approval delays in the resources industry were an Australian-wide problem and not confined to the fossil fuel industry.

“The thing that people don’t realize is everybody’s trying to shut down coal and gas and petroleum, but it takes as long to get an approval for a copper or cobalt mine. I don’t know where people are going to find all these commodities in years to come if all these other things do shut down,” he said.

Mr Millner called for Australia to roll out the equivalent US president-elect Donald Trump’s department of government efficiency (DOGE) to cut red and green tape in the wake of New Hope’s experiences at New Acland over the past 14 years.

The long-time chairman of Washington H Soul Pattinson, which owns the lion’s share of New Hope, said the growing bureaucratic and red tape burden on investors at all levels, including families, and should be a major election issue.

“It has to be (an election issue). Bureaucracy and the time it takes to get anything done is out of control. Look at approval for getting a house? In some shires and suburbs now it’s over 300 days. Thirty years ago, you’d go and put your plans in on a Monday morning and pick them up on a Thursday,” he said.

New Hope received approval to expand the New Acland - an open cut thermal coal mine about 30 kilometres from Oakey - in 2014, but then Queensland premier Campbell Newman got cold feet on the project in the lead up to a state election.

Frank wrote on Dec 28^th, 2024 at 2:24pm:



Victoria is turning into a depression State -

too many taxes and rules.
Payroll taxes, land taxes - you name it - the cost of business is too high
and now add lack of cheap energy and Victoria is closing for business -
the lights are turning off.

It will be the new Calcutta before long -
many 1 bedroom flats have 12 Indians living in them -
there's nowhere proper for many people to live.

This is the result of too many years of Labor.
IQs are low here - at least half of the people are illiterate -
that's why they keep voting for Labor.

Dnarever wrote on Jan 16^th, 2025 at 10:18am:


Well let's see.

First of all- How is methane (CH4) measured? It is measured in a lab in dry air.
Why dry air? Because it decomposes quickly in the presence of water plus the infrared window is mostly opaque to methane due overlapping with H2O, the primary greenhouse gas.

How is the Global Warming Potential of methane assessed?

It is assessed using equal mass (weight) of CH4 to CO2.

What is the mol weight of CH4? 16g/mol (C=12,H=1)

What is the mol weight of CO2? 44g/mol (C is still 12, O=16)

What is the present volume of CO2 and CH4 in the atmosphere? CO2 about 320 425ppmv (parts per million volume), CH4 something less than 2. (1.98ppmv)

Now because CH4 is not only much lighter than CO2 (16/44) = 0.36, but also far less concentration, CH4 would have to increase dramatically. So the equation would be  320 425ppmv/2ppmv and then the whole divided by 0.36 or about 58 590 times.

So death by methane is a non-goer.