Larvatus Prodeo’s Last Post
As of today, Larvatus Prodeo will cease publishing: the blog began to wend its way through the online world on March 17, 2005, so it’s a very old beast in internet years. We collectively feel seven years is enough.
How the Wivenhoe engineers fell foul of the Floods Commission
As I outlined in the first post, in February this year the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry reconvened as a result of reporting in The Australian by Hedley Thomas which suggested there had been a major breach of the flood [...]
Could the Wivenhoe flood engineers have done better?
As I mentioned in the other post, which is necessary reading for background, the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry in its Final Report did suggest that the engineers could have done better – a little, perhaps – but were sufficiently [...]
Amazing rain, and what the flood engineers did about it
Most people had the impression that the four flood engineers, Robert Ayre, John Ruffini, John Tibaldi and Terry Malone, had done pretty well during the Brisbane 2011 flood event, which began on 6 January when the Wivenhoe Dam first exceeded [...]
Queensland election wrap
We’ve reached 400 on the other thread and I’m not sure we are done yet. Any way I wanted to make a rather long comment. To me there were three general factors and three specific ones. The first general one [...]
The games miners play
It’s basic bargaining strategy. Threaten to walk away. Behre Dolbear have just released their 2012 annual survey of Ranking of countries for mining investment. Australia, Canada, Chile, Brazil and Mexico are ranked in that order as the top five nations [...]
Behind the Seams: Agriculture, land use and aquifers
Because of Crikey’s IT problems last week, there’s a bit of a backlog in Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams articles, so we’re publishing this piece here. In CSG and the land: straight from the farmers’ mouths I looked at [...]
Behind the Seams: Moderate voices in the CSG debate – video interviews
Cross-posted from The Wellhead As Kim Jameson reported, The Greens have ramped up the pressure on their key issue of Coal Seam Gas today, as the election enters its closing days. Similarly, Lock The Gate Alliance made an intervention around [...]
Who will lead Queensland Labor after the LNP-slide?
I have been a bit surprised that there’s been little discussion during the election campaign about who will replace Anna Bligh as Labor leader. Perhaps that’s because Andrew Fraser was rightly assumed to be next in line. But, on the [...]
2 hours to go: Please support FAQ Research independent media!
I’m really pleased that some sizeable donations have been rolling in this afternoon. It’s great to see people get behind independent reporting and analysis around Coal Seam Gas. Please consider making a donation – there are two hours to go! [...]
Donation Challenge: Let’s get CSG Behind the Seams fully funded
Perhaps serendipitously, LP readers who weren’t following the work Mark, Robert, Brian, myself and others including Pandora Karavan, John Quiggin and Roger Jones are doing on their collaboration with Crikey, Coal Seam Gas: Behind the Seams, saw some of the [...]