Author: David Boyd

The Coal Seam Gas Industry

Quite the clearest, balanced description I have read-World-first export LNG bonanza poised to set sailANDREW FRASERTHE AUSTRALIANDECEMBER 27, 2014 12:00AMPrintSave for laterMethane Rita Adrea enters Gladstone Harbour yesterday to take on the first shipment of LNG gas from Curtis Island. Picture: Murray Ware Source: SuppliedAUSTRALIA’S export liquefied natural gas industry on the east coast has begun with a … Continue reading The Coal Seam Gas Industry →

Christmas Greetings and 2014 Review

Once again we use the "late and easy" way by conveying our Christmas greetings electronically. Gail and I sincerely wish all our friends a very happy Christmas and a healthy and successful 2015.Not sure that I want to bore you with our health issues and somewhat mundane activities over 2014, so will strive for brevity … Continue reading Christmas Greetings and 2014 Review →

Morals and Fossil Fuels

USING COAL, OIL AND GAS, THE MORAL CHOICEReview: Alex Epstein, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Penguin Publishing, November 2014; 248 pages; ISBN-10: 1591847443, ISBN-13: 978-1591847441, $20.89 on Amazon.In his new book, The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, Alex Epstein makes one of the most compelling arguments for the moral value of fossil fuels and the need … Continue reading Morals and Fossil Fuels →

Inland Water Management

It is music to my ears to see the recognition that the key characteristic of our climate is not so much dryness, although there is plenty of that, but variability. Dorothea Mackellar got it so right with her "droughts and flooding rains". She might well have added "and not much in the middle!" The Millennium Drought followed by … Continue reading Inland Water Management →

Global Warming-US Senior Official’s Epiphany

CLIMATE SCIENCE NOT SETTLED,SAYS FORMER OBAMA UNDERSECRETARY FOR SCIENCEPhysicist Steven Koonin says climate science is far from settled and we are a long way from having good enough knowledge to make wise climate policy.That view is not news to climate skeptics, but it may seem surprising coming from Koonin, who was undersecretary for science in the … Continue reading Global Warming-US Senior Official’s Epiphany →

Health-An Update

For all those who over the last 12 months have expressed concern and support with my health issues, I would like to say a very heartfelt thank you.For the record, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer on 9th October last year. I had some 11 inches of my colon and rectum containing three malignant tumours … Continue reading Health-An Update →