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The Animal Farm Diesel Trap -- How the Pigs Sold the Golden Goose and Left Boxer Stranded
The global energy grid in September 2026 is playing out like the final chapters of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.
 • Graham Bates
Western Australia's $800 Million Giveaway — Perdaman Refinery Repeats UK's Privatization Disaster
Most OECD nations just don’t get it -- they handover their sovereign resources income to corporate wolves - that devour their national treasuries …
 • Graham Bates
The Five Commandments of Sovereign Resource Development
A practical framework to stop the Perdaman refinery, and every gas field behind it, becoming another windmill built for someone else's harvest …
 • Graham Bates
The Beetaloo Trap - Force Majeure Can Save the NT from Fiscal Collapse - Chapter 2
In Part 1, I shared my personal experience of Cyclone Tracy destroying Darwin in 1974. As the winds dropped, a group of us went across to the cliffs…
 • Graham Bates
The Corporate Wolves at Australia's Gate
Australia is finally building a new refinery. Norway, Brazil and Angola warn us of pitfalls in these proposed construction plans -- they will not fix a…
 • Graham Bates
Subject: A welcome message I owe you, a bit late
You’re getting this note a little out of order — you subscribed before I’d actually written a proper welcome message, so I’m fixing that now rather than…
 • Graham Bates
Napoleon's Windmill -- Animal Farm Redux & References
Here is the list of References used in the report - Downstream effects from the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz Chokepoint.
 • Graham Bates
Napoleon's Windmill: Why the Gulf Won't Rebuild Itself
The Strait of Hormuz will reopen. The oil will not come flooding back. The bill is embedded in every Global Balance Sheet — sulfuric acid, copper, and a…
 • Graham Bates
The Beetaloo Trap: A Northern Territory Phoenix - Rising from Fiscal Ashes?
Commonwealth & NT Public Servant - 1973-1998 -| Darwin Hospital | Cyclone Tracy Witness -- A Four-Part Series -- by Graham
 • Graham Bates

August 2026

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