Barry Jones (executive)

Barry Jones is the former chief executive of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA).[1][2]

Dirty Dozen

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 skeptics with considerable influence over Australian Government policy (others are : Hugh Morgan, John Eyles (AIGN), Ron Knapp, Alan Oxley, Peter Walsh, Chris Mitchell, Meg McDonald, Barry Jones (former head APPEA), Ian MacFarlane, Alan Moran, Malcolm Broomhead, and John Howard).[3]

References

  1. Database to track and protect whales Archived September 29, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. Mark Chillingworth, IDM.net.au, (December 17, 2001).
  2. Ex-APPEA chief Barry Jones passes away Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine. WA Business News, (November 17, 2005).
  3. http://www.tai.org.au/documents/downloads/WP84.pdf THE AUSTRALIA INSTITUTE, "The Dirty Politics of Climate Change", Speech to the Climate Change and Business Conference, Hilton Hotel, Adelaide, 20 February 2006


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