Yes that’s right folks, every year the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association awards the JN Pierce Award for media excellence in favourable coverage of the oil industry and its views. This year’s winner of this highly prestigious award is the Chairman’s own Chris Mitchell, editor-in-chief of The Australian. He’s taken out the award for leading his august paper’s coverage of climate change policy. Well done young Chris, the Chairman smiles on you, service rendered gets its due reward.