NSW goes beyond coal
The NSW Government has approved major gas-fired generation proposals for Tallawarra, Munmorah, Uranquinty, Bamarang, Marulan, Cobar or Bega, as well as wind farms for Crookwell and Woodlong.
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WA books 50MW of green power
Western Australia energy retailer Synergy today launched a tender process seeking new wholesale electricity supply of up to 50MW of capacity credits from renewable energy sources.
Enviro-friendly Jim: Synergy Managing Director Jim Mitchell said the operation of such a renewable generation project could potentially supply environmentally friendly power for over 70,000 homes. “Moreover, such a project can remove the equivalent carbon dioxide produced by over 80,000 cars on the road each year, depending on the technology chosen."
Greenpower demand rises to 2200MW
A key feature of the generation forecasts under the proposed National Emissions Trading Scheme (NETS) is that there is an increase in renewable generation capacity relative to business as usual, reaching around 2200 MW of total installed capacity by 2030.
Only 800MW under business as usual: By comparison, total new renewable generation capacity is estimated to be around 800 MW by 2030 under business as usual.
Expensive energy and cheap renewable technology: The increase in renewable generation capacity is driven by higher electricity prices and the estimated fall in the cost of renewable technologies. This new capacity is largely sourced from biomass and wind, but some hydro-electric facilities are also upgraded.
Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World
http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-09/28parenti.cfm
By Michael Parenti
There is a "mystery" we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. What do we make of this?
Over the last half century, U.S. industries and banks (and other western corporations) have invested heavily in those poorer regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America known as the "Third World." The transnationals are attracted by the rich natural resources, the high return that comes from low-paid labor, and the nearly complete absence of taxes, environmental regulations, worker benefits, and occupational safety costs.
Foreign Policy Speech Cancelled
http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2006/10/04/tony-judt-speech-shut-down-by-adl Wednesday, October 4th, 2006 in News by Matt Barganier| Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes, I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from Continue Reading →
Google Again Censors 9/11 Film Statistics
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 5 2006
Google Video has re-imposed a crass censorship policy to intentionally stifle the growth of Alex Jones’ Terror Storm documentary and prevent it from reaching tens of millions of people by covertly editing viewer statistics and blocking the film from entering its popular categories.
Last week we highlighted how Google had reset viewing totals for Terror Storm from hundreds of thousands of views on several different video versions back down to zero for each one.
Following a complaint Google admitted that the numbers had been reset by mistake, despite the fact that the error only seemed to apply to Terror Storm, and assured us that the problem would not re-occur.