Latest Australia Environment News
- Turnbull falls into step over ETS 25 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT
... shouldn't be introduced until it is in Australia's interest. In government, the coalition supported a ... it would reject the legislation until big polluting countries agreed to reduce their emissions. Mr ... reduce their emissions. Mr Turnbull, a former environment minister, had steadfastly supported a 2012 start ...
- Govt 'rushing' carbon trading: Turnbull 25 Jul 2008 05:13 GMT
... shouldn't be introduced until it is in Australia's interest. In government, the coalition supported a ... it would reject the legislation until big polluting countries agreed to reduce their emissions. Mr ... reduce their emissions. Mr Turnbull, a former environment minister, had steadfastly supported a 2012 start ...
- AL QAEDA IN IRAQ HEADING TO AFGHANISTAN 25 Jul 2008 05:08 GMT
... TO RUSH HICKS' TRIAL CAME DAY AFTER AUSTRALIAN AMBASSADOR MEEETING: In March 2007, Australian native ... investigators and created a ´generally abusive work environment,' the report said." "About 2 million Americans ... director of the World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. I began as an environmental activist ...
- Australia Proposes Trading Regime to Begin In 2010; Final Decision Likely by End of Year 25 Jul 2008 04:48 GMT
... Volume: 31 Number: 15 July 23, 2008 Australia Proposes Trading Regime to Begin In 2010; ... abandon our self interest in favor of ecological concerns,” she said. “As one of the ... driest continents on earth, Australia's economy and environment will be one of the hardest and ...
- Power plants in danger 25 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT
... Valley, both coal-fired power stations in South Australia and several generators in NSW and Queensland ... be forced to buy permits to continue polluting. Labor wants to create an ETS by ... the risk of adversely affecting the investment environment". The green paper says it would deliver ...
- Insights | The Carbon Curtain 25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT
... majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe's coal ... Continent won't come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. Australia is selling coal to all comers. On ...
- Self, Community, and Global Impact 25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
... drive around looking for surf and the environmental impact this has. It’s been much easier ... environment in which we exist. Discussions about global warming are, in reality, debates about a global ... — why should companies from England and Australia care about two guys biking and surfing ...
- Roxby again urged as nuclear waste site 25 Jul 2008 04:33 GMT
... waste site. (ABC News) A Roxby Downs ecologist and long-term resident says the South Australian Government is hypocritical for failing to offer ... is general consensus that, with radiation and environmental measures already in place, it could turn ...
- Crane to lift crashed container-load of rubbish from river 25 Jul 2008 03:27 GMT
... into Southland's Makarewa River last night. — Environment Southland is expected to conduct an aerial ... Australian government’s proposal for a Carbon Pollution Reduction ... gardens, propagating areas, native worm breeding and recycling systems are among 15 school projects that ...
- The Carbon Curtain 25 Jul 2008 02:30 GMT
... majority even in nations considered far more environmentally enlightened than China and India. Europe's coal ... Continent won't come close to meeting the Kyoto targets for carbon reduction. Australia is selling coal to all comers. On ...
- Fair game in Beijing 25 Jul 2008 02:20 GMT
... city of 17 million, to reduce air pollution during the Games, as well as the ... trucks we use can't meet the new environment standard, so we have no means of ... and her family. But, she tells The Australian, "now with the Olympics coming, going to ...
- Meanwhile, the rest of the world is going nuclear 25 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT
... for 20 years, by whch time the global warming horse would have well and truly bolted. ... don't have the surfeit of options that Australia does. Also, the rest of the world ... the natural resource, and it has serious environmental issues. Every one of these points duplicates ...
- Shale oil not the answer 25 Jul 2008 00:50 GMT
... last attempt to develop shale oil in Australia clearly demonstrates. The Stuart Project near Gladstone ... 2004 because of endless technical, commercial and environmental problems. It was four years behind schedule ... equally alarming. Its production is highly greenhouse polluting, up to almost four times worse than ...
- Interrogating official mechanisms for tackling climate change 25 Jul 2008 00:39 GMT
... Major emitters such as the USA and Australia did not accept these targets. The UN ... bent to carbon mercantilism or “free market” environmentalism. In fact they got the world to ... to South based on historical responsibility and ecological debt for adaptation and mitigation costs paid ...
- Cross Country: Checking in on manure digesters and farmer-entrepreneurs 25 Jul 2008 00:09 GMT
... Checking in on manure digesters and farmer-entrepreneurs Recycling dairy feed, biomass and wallboard -- an ... past year. The story generated inquiries from Australia (millions of tons of wall board in ... created a recycling business that serves the environment, contractors and farmers so well. And he ...
- Future may rest with the old school 23 Jul 2008 22:19 GMT
... fossil you covet. The brave new media ecology of audience-driven megadistribution, and, god forbid, maybe ... know overseas consumers get better services. Already Australians with broadband sit at their computer more ... they wish for in this evolving broadcast environment. Our clubs, and our sport, rely to ...
- New members for GIAB announced 23 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT
... now focuses on the Tindall Foundation and environmental and sustainability type projects. The Foundation invests ... to study globalisation at the Centre for Australian and New Zealand Studies, Georgetown University, and ... He was Chief Executive Officer of Visy Recycling for four years and prior to that ...
- Dave Rastavich, Ramon Navarro, and STW Team Up to Protect Chilean Surf Spot 23 Jul 2008 21:51 GMT
... Mar, and its surrounding coastline would be polluted if plans go ahead to construct a ... Santos del Mar. Pulverized coal shipments from Australia would be unloaded there, damaging the ecosystem ... surfers and residents are concerned about the environmental degradation that would be caused by burning ...
- Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Fred Eaglesmith Supports Biodiversity 23 Jul 2008 20:52 GMT
... Long Basin Land Trust protects and preserves ecological, agricultural, scenic, historic and recreational lands on ... a popular musical artist in Europe and Australia. The Catfish Creek Conservation Authority is mandated ... habitats through programs that balance human and environmental needs. Eaglesmith's Charity Picnic is one of ...
- US bids farewell to era of Model T 23 Jul 2008 20:34 GMT
... Anheuser-Busch during Prohibition in the 1920s. The Australian couple are in Richmond with about 900 ... for industrial America,” says Billy McGuire, an environmental science teacher from Richmond, Virginia, who owns ... of the car, making energy shortages and global warming very distant concerns. Now, he says, “America ...
- PM's 'unfinished referendum... 23 Jul 2008 19:33 GMT
... cabinet meeting yesterday to build a "new Australia" based on equality between blacks and whites. ... added to Australia's allowable levels of greenhouse pollution. And it is indicating that LNG projects ... be "near meaningless" was "economically reckless and environmentally irresponsible". ...
- grows rarer 23 Jul 2008 18:31 GMT
... monsoons in the Indian Ocean caused by global warming may paradoxically create drier conditions in Indonesia ... paradoxically create drier conditions in Indonesia and Australia, if past climatic interactions hold true. Every ... also lay down layer after layer of environmental records, a catalogue of the sea's temperature ...
- Right to Protection (R2P) from the World's Rich 23 Jul 2008 18:27 GMT
... of the affects of greenhouse gases on global warming. The consequences of inertia are like to ... world has seen over 4 decades of environmental degradation & who has to foot the ... of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions? ….even Australia has also refused. Global warming in essence ...
- Pacific NGOs left out 23 Jul 2008 18:26 GMT
... Association (PINA), Fiji Women's Crisis Centre (FWCC), Greenpeace, Pacific Foundation for the Advancement of Women ... peoples and the sustained preservation of our environment." Greenpeace Australia Pacific Nilesh Goundar said. "We call upon ...
- Jamison Report Calls for Fast-Tracking Development of Electric Vehicles in Australia 23 Jul 2008 17:55 GMT
... for Fast-Tracking Development of Electric Vehicles in Australia A report commissioned by Australia’s National Roads ... the economy and further damage to the environment. Australia is 99.9% dependent on fossil fuels ... consumption and carbon dioxide standards. Strengthen criteria pollutant emissions standards. Australian emissions standards for carbon ...
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