Responsible Governments Major Australian Refinery Closures

[9.3x64]

Key Refinery Closures and Responsible Governments:

Liberal
Port Stanvac (SA) - 2003: Closed under the John Howard Coalition government.

Labour
Clyde (NSW) - 2012: Closed under the Julia Gillard Labor government.

Liberal
Kurnell (NSW) - 2014: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Bulwer Island (QLD) - 2015: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Kwinana (WA) - 2021: Announced under the Scott Morrison Coalition government, with the company (BP) citing low refining margins.

Liberal
Altona (VIC) - 2021: Closed under the Scott Morrison Coalition government.

[bigrich]

Key Refinery Closures and Responsible Governments:

Liberal
Port Stanvac (SA) - 2003: Closed under the John Howard Coalition government.

Labour
Clyde (NSW) - 2012: Closed under the Julia Gillard Labor government.

Liberal
Kurnell (NSW) - 2014: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Bulwer Island (QLD) - 2015: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Kwinana (WA) - 2021: Announced under the Scott Morrison Coalition government, with the company (BP) citing low refining margins.

Liberal
Altona (VIC) - 2021: Closed under the Scott Morrison Coalition government.

interesting, more closed under the libs than labour

i'm sure if our government took they approach that they had during WW2 , just get it done , we could have drill rigs and refineries going within a year . cut funding to green b@llsh!t , and foreign aid packages that don't help our nation , and build what we need asap. plenty of big companies would be keen to get involved , but i think mineral rights should belong to the nation. not for companies to export for big profits, or for politicians to give away to foreign interests

[Wapiti]

Hence why the term "Duopoly" is so apt now.

Morrison signed us up to Paris, and you could go on forever how stupid they were to think that this would make them heroes in the eyes of the people.
They don't act in the interests of the country, only their own desperate attempts to fame and fortune.

It's now indisputable that focusing on this renewables madness, and playing into the hands of international wealth-shifting schemes whilst ignoring that there is no alternative to fossil fuels to grow, feed and build the world out of the stone ages.
These people have either no foresight or intelligence or are despicably evil and are trying to turn the world upside down.

[9.3x64]

Key Refinery Closures and Responsible Governments:

Liberal
Port Stanvac (SA) - 2003: Closed under the John Howard Coalition government.

Labour
Clyde (NSW) - 2012: Closed under the Julia Gillard Labor government.

Liberal
Kurnell (NSW) - 2014: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Bulwer Island (QLD) - 2015: Closed under the Tony Abbott Coalition government.

Liberal
Kwinana (WA) - 2021: Announced under the Scott Morrison Coalition government, with the company (BP) citing low refining margins.

Liberal
Altona (VIC) - 2021: Closed under the Scott Morrison Coalition government.

interesting, more closed under the libs than labour

i'm sure if our government took they approach that they had during WW2 , just get it done , we could have drill rigs and refineries going within a year . cut funding to green b@llsh!t , and foreign aid packages that don't help our nation , and build what we need asap. plenty of big companies would be keen to get involved , but i think mineral rights should belong to the nation. not for companies to export for big profits, or for politicians to give away to foreign interests

Yeah it is interesting isn’t it.
The wonderful liberal governments that I have been voting for…
Never again.

[Wapiti]

Well, let's see who is really going to act in this countries interests from now on.

Who is going to bite the bullet, and "drill, baby drill", and start the immediate engineering and fabrication of new, world's best efficiency refineries in every capital city, and heaven forbid, construct new tank farms alongside them so we have on-tap, 90-180 days of energy being rotated through storage.
It's right at their fingertips, all we need to see now is who is fair-dinkum, and who is just constantly lying to us all.

[Die Judicii]

Key Refinery Closures.

interesting, more closed under the libs than labour

i'm sure if our government took they approach that they had duringhh WW2 , just get it done , we could have drill rigs and refineries going within a year . cut funding to green b@llsh!t , and foreign aid packages that don't help our nation , and build what we need asap. plenty of big companies would be keen to get involved , but i think mineral rights should belong to the nation. not for companies to export for big profits, or for politicians to give away to foreign interests

Perhaps that Football team from Papua New Guinea could come and help us rebuild and reopen some of the refineries ???

[bigrich]

Key Refinery Closures.

interesting, more closed under the libs than labour

i'm sure if our government took they approach that they had duringhh WW2 , just get it done , we could have drill rigs and refineries going within a year . cut funding to green b@llsh!t , and foreign aid packages that don't help our nation , and build what we need asap. plenty of big companies would be keen to get involved , but i think mineral rights should belong to the nation. not for companies to export for big profits, or for politicians to give away to foreign interests

Perhaps that Football team from Papua New Guinea could come and help us rebuild and reopen some of the refineries ???

your referring to our government giving 6 million a year so PNG can have a national football team freakin nuts

[Wapiti]

Yep. I wonder if that parasite Albanese will wear their merchandise too in some bullsh*t press conference

Meanwhile single parents are living in cars with their kids, trying to find toilets, showers and affordable laundromats.

[Die Judicii]

Yep. I wonder if that parasite Albanese will wear their merchandise too in some bullsh*t press conference

Meanwhile single parents are living in cars with their kids, trying to find toilets, showers and affordable laundromats.

Yep, and u can now add that most likely when the cops tell em to “Move on” they won’t be able cos they don’t have any fuel.

[Wapiti]

That sneering c**t makes me and everyone I know sick looking at the failure.
I'd be chomping at the bit if I was still in the energy game, and had a say.
The engineers would all be designing power plants that make steam to spin the turbines with our unlimited uranium for unending power for any industry and domestic needs,
There'd be at least two refineries being drafted up now for every capital city, and our oil IS FOR US first,
All gas and oil exploration would have the approval and those who's land would be drilled would be rich,
LNG for export would have a 25-30% tax on it, that's what's left from the priority - fertiliser plants here and for penny-cheap household and industrial uses,
And I'd be sending the engineers to show me why the Bradfield project wouldn't change our countries agricultural potential a hundred-fold.

Dead set, globalists need to be removed from influence in this country forever.

[alexjones]

In the 30 years since 1996 labor has only had power at the federal level for 10 of those years.

Both sides are just as bad.

[alexjones]

Key Refinery Closures.

interesting, more closed under the libs than labour

i'm sure if our government took they approach that they had duringhh WW2 , just get it done , we could have drill rigs and refineries going within a year . cut funding to green b@llsh!t , and foreign aid packages that don't help our nation , and build what we need asap. plenty of big companies would be keen to get involved , but i think mineral rights should belong to the nation. not for companies to export for big profits, or for politicians to give away to foreign interests

Perhaps that Football team from Papua New Guinea could come and help us rebuild and reopen some of the refineries ???

your referring to our government giving 6 million a year so PNG can have a national football team freakin nuts

Australia gave an extra 50 million dollars to the government of Afghanistan. The taliban!!! Who we had a war with and are a terrorist regime.


You can not make this stuff up.

https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-ea ... 2b7e1e?amp

[bigrich]

very poor use of taxpayers money AJ . not really in the national interest in my opinion .

[bigrich]

watch this

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/id ... ocialshare

[Wapiti]

See the Qld LNP Premier, Crisafulli, has requested the ability to fast-track and drill new wells, extract and begin refining oil for fuel here in central/western Qld from the massive inland fields. To copy the US as they have reversed since the Biden era, and make us self-sufficient here.

It will be very interesting to see the jelly-spined activists in Labor and how they will squirm their way out of this in their intent to keep us screwed down and reliant on their masters.
Maybe it'll be too obvious even for them to keep lying to us all and say no. I guess they can sort of say yes, then wrap everything up in the barbed wire of socialistic red-tape in some BS environmental lie as they always do.

[bigrich]

Maybe it'll be too obvious even for them to keep lying to us all and say no. I guess they can sort of say yes, then wrap everything up in the barbed wire of socialistic red-tape in some BS environmental lie as they always do.

sounds about right mate . this nation has been subdued by the red tape version of "death by a thousand cuts..."

[markg]

Successive Govts have de industrialised our country solely for the purpose of making money for big multi nationals. We get zero real return for our mineral and gas exports. They pay a pittance in royalties and get virtually 53% of the gas for free. Japan buys our gas cheaply enough to on sell for a profit. Look at the Govts support/funding for Santos Barossa gas project. Why in hell should the taxpayer be funding anything for big mining concerns. They sold 60% of the Kurnell De Sal plant to a Canadian Super fund that did eventually sell of it's 60% share. It was earning it's investors $224 million a year whether it was operational or not. These types of dodgy deals are the norm in this place these days. Australia has more politicians per capita population than any other country in the world, a massively bloated Public Service that's main claim to fame would be failure. The two majors are as corrupt as they come and the system is designed to keep either one in power, that's it's biggest failing. Events of the past few weeks show just how vulnerable we are, not just inn regards to fuel but to just about anything else for matter. Is this what we call the "lucky country"? Not anymore.

[Wapiti]

I reckon there's absolutely nothing wrong with a government part-funding and fast-tracking new mining and energy projects. The products exported should be sold at a sufficient profit to pay back the cost of the project, and reap tax dollars throughout the life of said project export revenue to build this country back.
Of course mining companies should also make profits, they employ Australians which in turn spend big into our economy. What about all of the smaller companies supplying goods and services to the mines also? More money flushing domestic economies.
Patriotic Australian governments, run by experienced skilled politicians who got that way from real-world experience, not the mummy's boy activist scum now, should encourage domestic companies to keep all profits here too.
We have worlds-best raw materials, yet the scum who run the country give it away so cheap there's actually middle-men in other countries on-selling it at a profit and giggling at how dumb our "leaders" are.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with government owned energy and mining projects either, properly run as a business by real-world skilled management with Australia as the number 1 benefactor. Problem is, public servants with no skill other than butt-f**king one another to get to the top are why everything now is such a clusterf**k.
Exactly why the NDIS is off the rails, by the way.
They could do this by part funding all projects as I suggested above.

But no... globalisation means the few political trash get everlasting life by selling us all out, and the rest of us are told lies so often, the dumb majority believe it.

[alexjones]

watch this

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/id ... ocialshare

I don't know why a lot of Australians hate nuclear power.

[Wapiti]

And then whinge...

[9.3x64]

watch this

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/id ... ocialshare

I don't know why a lot of Australians hate nuclear power.

No I don’t either.

[bigrich]

watch this

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/id ... ocialshare

I don't know why a lot of Australians hate nuclear power.

because they've been brainwashed . small amounts of nuclear waste aside , in operation nuclear power has no emissions except water vapor . people respond with a knee jerk reaction to nuclear power the same as criticism of some of the less western friendly cultures that migrate to our country. facts are facts , free thinking is rare these days

[Fester]

The uni-party can't even fund, or run themselves. Governments have been selling of everything for about 30 years now.

Well before the Como/Greens took over, Liberals were even quicker to sell of anything that moves, I suspect for the deals as they were the masters out of the 2 corruption parties.

It just disgusts me as we are falling into the greatest recession, and at the same time they are increasing the govt, consultants, and waste, that we can no longer afford. The revolving door is spinning so fast, no more can jump on.

That independant minister, who went on TV and exposed the truth about them not working for us, just there donating lobby groups that meet with the minisers daily seems to have been silenced or paid off.
An issue so serious, yet not another word was said, in the main stream media, at least.

Ablo said the words in his ''We need to" speech, "We need to make more stuff here".
As far as doing anything, the talk was about all we will ever see.

As that small builing company owner who has gone into politics to try and stop small businesses dying said, " No wars were ever started over solar pannels or wind farms". GOLD