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This issue there are 48 items.
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The Australian
18 March 2009
MALCOLM Turnbull has linked emissions trading to thousands of feared job losses in Queensland, claiming three Townsville metal smelters will close, the state’s coal industry will face a “carbon bill” of $2.4 billion over five years and even green jobs will be threatened by the Rudd Government’s scheme.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
18 March 2009
The federal government says it is talking to key crossbench senators about its planned emissions trading scheme, even though it hasn’t introduced the legislation to parliament.
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The Canberra Times
18 March 2009
Whatever their political motives, the Coalition and the Greens have done the Australian community a favour by setting up a Senate select committee to investigate the choice of emissions trading as our key greenhouse gas abatement mechanism.
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The Canberra Times
18 March 2009
China appealed yesterday to exclude its giant export sector in the next treaty on climate change, as doubts grew about whether the world could close ranks by a deadline of December.
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The Australian
18 March 2009
AUSTRALIAN-MADE goods will suffer under a carbon trading scheme, burdened by costs that countries with nuclear power will not incur, says the head of the nation’s peak nuclear agency.
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The West Australian
18 March 2009
WA scientists are aiming to put climatefriendly sheep on the menu, by breeding varieties that belch less methane than conventional flocks.
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The Age
18 March 2009
NORTHERN Victorians are in danger of becoming Australia’s first climate change refugees, according to a top Brumby Government water official.
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The Advertiser
18 March 2009
WATER restrictions could be a thing of the past for northern residents under an Australia-first plan to connect stormwater with existing homes.
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The Age
18 March 2009
Nations should throw themselves into building defences against floods and drought, which may already be multiplying due to climate change, the World Water Forum here heard on Tuesday
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Sydney Morning Herald
18 March 2009
AS WELL as lending books, libraries in central Sydney will soon start lending devices that give households a reading of their carbon footprint.
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The Brisbane Times
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
Brisbane’s Lord Mayor Campbell Newman has called for a Royal Commission into the response by authorities to the south-east Queensland oil spill.
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The Australian
18 March 2009
THE pictures tell a compelling story. Oil-covered beaches, rescued seabirds and dozens of men raking sand while decked out in rubber gloves, boots and – if they’re following health and safety regulations – chemical hazard suits and face masks.
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
Commercial fishermen want compensation from the ship owners responsible for a 60 kilometre oil slick on the Queensland coast.
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ABC Radio Australia
18 March 2009
A martime law expert says the final damage bill from the oil spill off eastern state of Queensland will be much less than has been reported.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
18 March 2009
AS WELL as lending books, libraries in central Sydney will soon start lending devices that give households a reading of their carbon footprint.
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The Brisbane Times
18 March 2009
The firm running Queensland’s Solar Home project, the Liberal National Party (LNP) and local solar businesses all say Queensland should bite the bullet and introduce the “brilliant” solar energy scheme popular throughout Europe where households are paid for all the electricity their solar energy system generates.
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The Age
18 March 2009
RENEWABLE energy company Pacific Hydro has challenged claims the Government’s climate change policies will cost jobs, saying it will create at least 1200 new positions at Hydro over the next five years if they are implemented.
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The Age
18 March 2009
The US will have to consider imposing duties on imports to level the economic playing field with countries that don’t try to limit their carbon emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
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The Age
18 March 2009
EAST Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta has intervened to delay the construction of three second-hand and highly polluting electricity plants.
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The Advertiser
18 March 2009
POTENTIALLY deadly silica is raining on homes around a limestone mine in Angaston, concerned residents say.
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The West Australian
18 March 2009
Fruit and vegetable growers in Manjimup are gearing up to fight plans for a wood-burning power station after Environment Minister Donna Faragher approved the project this week.
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The Canberra Times
18 March 2009
Regular culls to manage kangaroo population levels would become common in the ACT, Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said yesterday.
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The Brisbane Times
18 March 2009
Brisbane’s status as a “nuclear-free zone” is no longer relevant despite a vote by city councillors last night to reaffirm the city’s policy, first established in 1983.
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The Brisbane Times
18 March 2009
ALP councillors last night accused Lord Mayor Campbell Newman of “dishing dirt” for claiming they owned shares in uranium mining companies while arguing for Brisbane to remain nuclear-free.
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The Northern Territory Times
18 March 2009
THE Territory’s only uranium mine yesterday quietly applied to operate a sulphuric acid heat-leaching plant.
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The Geelong Advertiser
18 March 2009
GEELONG’S recycling industry is in upheaval amid low world commodity prices.
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The Geelong Advertiser
18 March 2009
James Lovelock, originator of the Gaia theory which describes Earth as a self-regulating planet, tells Gaia Vince we have one last chance to save ourselves _ and it has nothing to do with nuclear power
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The Herald Sun
18 March 2009
IT’S the green mafia at work. The Brumby Government forces you to pay extra to prop up wind farms owned mostly by union-backed funds.
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
A town in Japan has come up with a novel way of beating the country’s crippling recession: by extracting gold from its sewage.
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
Goulburn Mulwaree Council has voted in favour of a pipeline project that will provide water security for the drought-prone city in the NSW Southern Tablelands.
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
The Federal Opposition’s environment spokesman says the public will be watching closely to see if Environment Minister Peter Garrett approves an expansion of a Northern Territory uranium mine, given his longstanding opposition to uranium mining.
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ABC Online
18 March 2009
A $26 million plan is under consideration to help fight acidification and a collapse of the ecology of the drought-affected lower Murray in South Australia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
17 March 2009
One of the country’s top scientists has told politicians to act quickly on climate change or devastate the lives of unborn generations.
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The Age
17 March 2009
Countries around the Arctic must commit to curbing climate change to ensure the survival of the polar bear, Norway’s environment minister said on Tuesday as an international meeting opened on the species’ fate.
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ABC Radio Australia
17 March 2009
Critics say the Australian government’s scheme would allow Australian companies to simply outsource their carbon abatement by investing in offshore projects such as Indonesian forests. Story also covered by:
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The Sydney Morning Herald
17 March 2009
The Sydney designer, whose wares have been spotted on famous frames including Delta Goodrem, George Michael and Peaches Geldof, has designed a one-off T-shirt to be auctioned in the week leading to the event on March 28.
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The Age
17 March 2009
European Union leaders could scupper progress in the fight against global warming if they fail on Wednesday to agree financing for emissions cuts in the developing world, the United Nation’s top climate change official said.
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The Courier Mail
17 March 2009
A NAVY mine hunter will use sonar to scour the sea floor for the 31 missing containers washed overboard from the Pacific Adventurer on March 10.
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The Brisbane Times
17 March 2009
The State Government has launched a $750,000 tourism campaign to entice visitors back to South-East Queensland coastal areas following last week’s oil spill.
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The Brisbane Times
17 March 2009
Dead marine life and unusually high levels of algae have been found on the Maroochy River shoreline, but authorities have ruled out last week’s oil spill as the cause.
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The Advertiser
17 March 2009
FOUR energy suppliers have been shortlisted to supply power to South Australia’s desalination plant.
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Ninemsn
17 March 2009
The federal government says it has sufficient assistance measures in place to help regional areas of Australia take up its proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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Ninemsn
17 March 2009
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla have met the last surviving member of a subspecies of giant Galapagos tortoise, and they came away impressed by his girth.
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ABC Radio (PM)
17 March 2009
Emissions trading experts say the claims made by regional mining centres that the emissions trading scheme will cost jobs are overstated. They say mining only produces a small amount of emissions compared to electricity generation and will therefore require less permits.
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ABC Online
17 March 2009
Duck hunting will be allowed in South Australia this year but the State Government says there will be heavy restrictions.
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ABC Radio Australia
17 March 2009
The Australian government is relying on countries like Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia to help meet its targets in a bitter climate change debate, a critic says.
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ABC Online
17 March 2009
The Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) says authorities should be doing more to mitigate the effect of any future oil spills.
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ABC Online
17 March 2009
Water catchments affected by Australia’s most deadly bushfire disaster could be at risk from pollution for several years, experts say.
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