Making Environmental News 11/08 – 58 Items (Estimated Reading Time = 3 min 58 sec)
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This issue there are 58 items, including weekend coverage.
Click on the headline to link to the article
ABC Online
11 August 2008
Federal Environment Department bureaucrats are today expected to appear before an inquiry in Brisbane into the Government’s decision to means test its solar panel rebate.
story also covered by:
The Age
Macquarie Radio Network
ABC Radio Australia
The Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian
The Brisbane Times
Ninemsn
ABC Online
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The Sydney Morning Herald
11 August 2008
Simcoa is a little-known company which operates Australia’s only silicon smelter at Kemerton, 160 kilometres south of Perth.
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The Geelong Advertiser
11 August 2008
A BATTLE royal looms over more than 1000 Geelong jobs as industry chiefs today prepare to confront Corio MP Richard Marles over the impact of the Federal Government’s carbon emissions trading scheme.
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The Age
11 August 2008
IT SEEMS there has been a collective decision to abandon the lower Murray and 90% of South Australians to their fate.
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SBS World News Australia
11 August 2008
Researchers are competing to meet a challenge from the US Department of Energy: Improve fuel economy 10 per cent by converting wasted exhaust heat into energy that can help power the vehicle.
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The Australian
11 August 2008
HIS designs are better known for looking good than for practicality. Now Philippe Starck, the Frenchman who has styled everything from lemon squeezers to luxury hotels, has entered the world of green power, describing most of his previous work as “unnecessary”.
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The Mercury
11 August 2008
BUDDING environmentalists and birdwatchers are being urged to report sightings of the endangered swift parrot this breeding season.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
A council in the Gulf of Carpentaria is embarking on a unique project to tackle the shortage of fresh and affordable food in the face of rising costs and isolation.
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The Australian
11 August 2008
DIVORCE is not just heart-breaking — it’s bad for the environment. When a couple or family separates, they create two households where there used to be one.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
The Australian Workers Union says State and Federal Governments need to ensure jobs are protected under an emissions trading scheme.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
A group residents from Agnes Water and the Town of 1770, south of Gladstone, say they will continue to protest against the the Gladstone Regional Council’s plan to build a desalination plant.
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The Daily Telegraph
11 August 2008
A PUSH to fit eco-friendly cars with artificial engine noises has been ruled out by the country’s largest hybrid manufacturer.
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The Courier Mail
11 August 2008
Brisbane’s Springfield, in the city’s southwest, is set to play a key role in developing Australian companies that supply environmentally friendly technology and products to Australians and the world, investors say.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
The Capricorn Conservation Council (CCC) says it will be writing to Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett about a proposed coal port at Shoalwater Bay in central Queensland.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
Primary Industries says there is potential for a commercial aquaculture project in the South Australian Riverland.
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ABC Online
11 August 2008
A water expert says the Federal Government’s handling of the lower lakes and Coorong in South Australia is a contravention of an international treaty to protect wetlands.
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The Daily Telegraph
10 August 2008
THE threat of rising sea levels caused by climate change is not putting off cashed-up Australians from spending big on blue-chip beachfront property.
story also covered by:
News.com.au
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The Age
10 August 2008
HALF of Australia’s biggest companies are risking cost blow-outs, an increased regulatory burden and reputational damage from climate change, according to an international report.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
10 August 2008
An environmentally compatible economy will bring prosperity, writes Rob Oakeshott.
story also covered by:
The Brisbane Times
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ABC Online
10 August 2008
Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young says claims that the Federal Government’s new water management authority in the Murray-Darling Basin will be independent is a furphy.
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The Advertiser
10 August 2008
TODAY’S mass rally on Hindmarsh Island Bridge in support of the ailing River Murray and Lower Lakes is a graphic case of people power versus politicians.
story also covered by:
The Sydney Morning Herald
The West Australian
The Age
The Age
The Age
The Brisbane Times
The Herald Sun
The Advertiser
The Sunday Times
The Daily Telegraph
The Mercury
The Australian
The Australian
News.com.au
The Courier Mail
The Canberra Times
ABC Online
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The Advertiser
10 August 2008
IF we’re not already losing sleep over the perilous state of the River Murray, events that have unfolded this week should be causing statewide insomnia.
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The Advertiser
10 August 2008
IN the early 1980s the Murray Mouth closed for the first time in living memory.
Mother Nature was giving us a clear message about the health of the river system, but it was not heeded and the following years saw increased allocations of water through the Murray Darling Basin.
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News.com.au
10 August 2008
A SYDNEY Harbour-sized wall of water could be pumped into the ailing River Murray from six water-hoarding cotton farms under a radical new plan unveiled by conservationists yesterday.
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The Courier Mail
10 August 2008
AUSTRALIAN motorists could be driving cars run on clean, green fuel from forests of biodiesel trees in the future.
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Sky News Australia
10 August 2008
Queensland’s south-east is closer to being drought proof, with the Southern Regional Water Pipeline now complete.
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The Canberra Times
10 August 2008
The establishment of an ACT e-waste consortium, a pedestrian action plan and monitoring indoor air quality are some of the recommendations outlined in the ACT’s State of the Environment report.
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The Age
10 August 2008
ENVIRONMENTAL worshippers believe that increases in energy prices stemming from the 2010 emissions trading scheme are worth the pain. But on what basis?
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ABC Online
10 August 2008
A Sydney council has become the first in Australia to allow members of the public access to free filtered water in an attempt to reduce litter from water bottles.
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The Courier Mail
10 August 2008
CONSUMERS have embraced organic produce, with sales rising rapidly over the past four years.
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The West Australian
10 August 2008
Gas will be a transitional fuel until 2020, Origin Energy chairman Kevin McCann says.
story also covered by:
Macquarie Radio Network
The Brisbane Times
Ninemsn
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ABC Online
9 August 2008
The Federal Opposition says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has gone soft on China when it comes to climate change and clean energy.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
HAS global warming stopped? The question alone is enough to provoke scorn from the mainstream scientific community and from the Government, which says the earth has never been hotter. But tell that to a new army of sceptics who have mushroomed on internet blog sites and elsewhere in recent months to challenge some of the most basic assumptions and claims of climate change science.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
RAIN won’t necessarily save the Murray’s devastated lower lakes, as new figures show parched catchments have trapped winter falls before the water could enter the river system.
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The Advertiser
9 August 2008
A WALL of water would be released from the northern reaches of the Murray-Darling Basin to rescue the stricken Lower Lakes, under a green group’s emergency plan.
story also covered by:
The West Australian
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Age
The Brisbane Times
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Sky News Australia
9 August 2008
Senator Nick Xenophon wants the federal government to take over the Murray River system to save the dying lower lakes in South Australia.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
THE Darling River is flowing no more, with the iconic waterway reduced in places to a series of interlinked pools.
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The West Australian
9 August 2008
Global warming could make WA even drier than experts had predicted, according to new climate research. The findings raise the prospect of worsening summer water shortages as subtropical regions become more parched.
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The Mercury
9 August 2008
ANGRY farmers have called an emergency drought-crisis summit and lashed out at the State Government for ignoring their plight.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
MERCEDES has surprised the Senate review into the luxury car tax with a radical proposal to include cars in a carbon reduction scheme.
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The Herald Sun
9 August 2008
Climate change, urbanisation and resource shortages – most notably oil – are fuelling a move away from large cars to smaller, lighter alternatives.
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The Age
9 August 2008
RISING temperatures are likely to bring increased levels of violence to Melbourne by 2010, and are highly likely to by 2030, a report being considered by the city council finds.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
9 August 2008
Clive Dorman explains why airlines want alternative fuel as badly as their customers.
story also covered by:
The Age
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The Sydney Morning Herald
9 August 2008
Australians are born with a passport in their pouch, a New York friend once commented as I arrived for the second visit in as many years. That was back in my child-free days. Stuck-at-home Americans, constrained by their two-week annual vacation and a nervousness about the world, always marvelled at footloose Australians, unfazed by 24-hour flights and what was then a sagging dollar.
story also covered by:
The Brisbane Times
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The Courier Mail
9 August 2008
FORMER World Bank economist Mara Bun knows all too well the business world is tied to short-term goals like the next quarterly profit result.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
OIL and gas company heads will join forces to call for changes to Labor’s proposed emissions trading scheme in a bid to stop the exodus offshore of billions of dollars of LNG investment to the detriment of the environment.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
Increasingly, privately owned reserves are seen as a key plank in the nation’s environmental strategy, as state governments struggle to find the resources to manage national parks.
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The Australian
9 August 2008
AN environmental group has promised to make green issues a prominent part of the West Australian election set for September 6.
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The Age
9 August 2008
WHAT do you do when, after a three-year investigation, experts you appointed tell you many of northern Victoria’s river red gum forests risk being lost forever and need to be locked up in five new national parks?
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The Australian
9 August 2008
ORGANIC food, once the domain of farm-gate country folk and urban hippies, is threatening to get serious in the food retail stakes — finally.
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The Courier Mail
9 August 2008
IT’S shaping up to be an emissions trading scheme title fight and the contenders include Queensland and the southern states.
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ABC Online
9 August 2008
Forestry Tasmania has found laser beams can more accurately map forest terrain, to help identify which trees should be protected for their carbon stores.
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ABC Radio Australia
9 August 2008
Cintri, the firm charged with the mammoth task of collecting garbage in the Cambodian capital has unveiled plans to recycle Phnom Penh’s mountains of trash into organic fertilizer.
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The West Australian
8 August 2008
Australia and China will hold ministerial talks on climate change to help deal with the global challenge, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said.
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The West Australian
8 August 2008
A new website allows people to offset their carbon emissions by clicking on targeted email advertisements.
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ABC Online
8 August 2008
Forestry Tasmania is selling its new Sustainability Charter as a new era in public accountability, but the Greens are concerned it’s environmentally friendly in name only.
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Ninemsn
8 August 2008
SYDNEY, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Australia has recorded its largest transaction in carbon emissions, with 20,000 tonnes of carbon sold forward at A$21.50 ($19.51) a tonne, a carbon broker said on Friday, as the nation prepares to curb greenhouse gases.
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The Age
8 August 2008
Car maker GM Holden will take a leadership role in engaging both governments and business to drive the switch to alternative fuels, chairman and managing director Mark Reuss says.
story also covered by:
The Brisbane Times
Ninemsn
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