Barry Jones (executive)
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Barry Jones is the former chief executive of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association
(APPEA).
In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton
(director of The Australia Institute
) identified Jones as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen" (or Greenhouse Mafia
), a group of climate change skeptic
s with considerable influence over Australian Government policy (others are : Hugh Morgan, John Eyles, Ron Knapp
, Alan Oxley, Peter Walsh
, Chris Mitchell
, Meg McDonald, Barry Jones (former head APPEA), Ian MacFarlane
, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and John Howard
). http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf
Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association
The Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, known as APPEA, is an Australian industry association representing companies which explore and produce oil and gas in Australia. APPEA is a non-profit organisation....
(APPEA).
In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton
Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University. He is the Founder and former Executive Director of the The...
(director of The Australia Institute
The Australia Institute
The Australia Institute is a left wing Australian think tank conducting public policy research, funded by grants from philanthropic trusts, memberships and commissioned research....
) identified Jones as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen" (or Greenhouse Mafia
Greenhouse Mafia
Greenhouse Mafia is allegedly the "in house" name used by Australia’s carbon lobby for itself. It was also the title of a program aired by the ABC on the 13 February 2006 episode of its weekly current affairs program Four Corners....
), a group of climate change skeptic
Global warming controversy
Global warming controversy refers to a variety of disputes, significantly more pronounced in the popular media than in the scientific literature, regarding the nature, causes, and consequences of global warming...
s with considerable influence over Australian Government policy (others are : Hugh Morgan, John Eyles, Ron Knapp
Ron Knapp
Ron Knapp has been the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council since 2001, after heading the World Coal Institute.In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006, Clive Hamilton identifies Knapp as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen", a group of climate change skeptics with...
, Alan Oxley, Peter Walsh
Peter Walsh (Australian politician)
Peter Alexander Walsh AO is a former Australian senator and Labor politician from 1974 to 1993.Walsh grew up in Doodlakine, Western Australia, where he was a wheat and sheep farmer. He was elected to the Australian Senate in 1974, and served as Minister for Resources and Energy from 1983 to 1984...
, Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell
Chris Mitchell is an Australian journalist and is editor-in-chief of The Australian. He began his career on the former afternoon tabloid, The Telegraph, in 1973 and after working on The Townsville Bulletin, The Daily Telegraph and the Australian Financial Review, became editor of The Australian in...
, Meg McDonald, Barry Jones (former head APPEA), Ian MacFarlane
Ian Macfarlane (politician)
Ian Elgin Macfarlane , is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives in October 1998, representing the Division of Groom, Queensland for the Liberal National Party...
, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....
). http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf