Barry Jones is the former
chief executive of the
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.
The organisatio ...
(APPEA).
Dirty Dozen
In a speech given in Adelaide on 20 February 2006,
Clive Hamilton
Clive Charles Hamilton AM FRSA (born 12 March 1953) is an Australian public intellectual and Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) and the Vice-Chancellor's Chair in Public Ethics at Charles ...
(director of
The Australia Institute) identified Jones as one of Australia's climate change "dirty dozen" (or
Greenhouse Mafia
"Greenhouse Mafia" is the title of a TV program aired by Australian network ABC on the 13 February 2006 episode of its weekly current affairs program ''Four Corners''. The program says the term ''greenhouse mafia'' is the "in house" name used by ...
), a group of
climate change denier
Climate change denial, or global warming denial, is denial, dismissal, or doubt that contradicts the scientific consensus on climate change, including the extent to which it is caused by humans, its effects on nature and human society, or the ...
s with considerable influence over
Australian Government
The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government i ...
policy (others are :
Hugh Morgan, John Eyles (
AIGN),
Ron Knapp
Ron Knapp was the CEO of the Australian Aluminium Council from 2002 to 2008, having previously led the World Coal Institute. In December 2008 he became Secretary-General of the International Aluminium Institute
International is an adjective (also ...
,
Alan Oxley Alan Oxley is an Australian diplomat.
Biography
Oxley worked for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and sometimes in the United Nations in both New York City and Geneva. He became an ambassador to the General Agreement on Tariff ...
,
Peter Walsh,
Chris Mitchell,
Meg McDonald,
Barry Jones (former head APPEA),
Ian MacFarlane,
Alan Moran,
Malcolm Broomhead
Malcolm William Broomhead (born 11 September 1952) is an Australian businessman who has held various directorships and senior positions in the Australian engineering, industrial and resources sectors. As of 2018, he is a director of BHP and Chai ...
, and
John Howard
John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, holding office as leader of the Liberal Party. His eleven-year tenure as prime minister is the s ...
).
References
External links
APPEA Home Page Oil and Gas Industry farewells Jones
Australian chief executives
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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