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Qld electronic petition in favour of daylight saving signed by 59,421 people; largest ever
The two electronic petitions, which closed on 12 April, will be tabled in State Parliament next week in a move that will increase pressure on the Beattie Government to reconsider holding a referendum on daylight saving, reported The Courier Mail (12 April 2006, p.2).
European energy companies are trading carbon credits at over 39 Euros per tonne, amid expectations that the laws on carbon emissions will tighten further after 2007, according to Bloomberg.com. Carbon trading has been in full effect in Europe for over one year, with an estimated reduction in emmissions of over 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide saved.
Three out of five South Australian households, or 60 per cent, had quarterly electricity bills under $250, according to a telephone survey of 1211 households in February, the Essential Services Commission of South Australia (ESCOSA) said in a report prepared in March.
Prof. Ron McCallum is the Dean of Law at Sydney University. He recently addressed the National Press Club and Politics in the Pub at the Gaelic Club in Sydney on the new industrial relations laws. The transcript of the Politics in the Pub speech of April 7th is attached.
Queensland company CH4, announced yesterday a partnership with Swedish explosives firm Dyno Nobel to produce Ammonium Nitrate fertiliser from the coal seam gas at its field near Moranbah. … more
Angry motorists have forced Prime Minister John Howard to ask the
consumer watchdog to step in over the sudden rise in petrol prices in
the lead up to Easter. While Mr Howard and Treasurer Peter Costello
have been told oil companies have not been conspiring to push prices
higher, drivers want them to explain how petrol can jump 12c – past the
$1.30 mark – in one day, just days before the school holidays begin.
“According to the best information we have from the ACCC there is not
some kind of seasonally-adjusted holiday conspiracy by the oil
companies to lift the price,” Mr Howard said. “But I will go back to
them [the ACCC] in the light of what’s been claimed.” The watchdog is
currently conducting informal monitoring of petrol pricing and will “go
in gangbusters” if evidence is found of collusion by the major oil
companies. But the NRMA claims any ACCC inquiry is pointless without
the power to analyse the books of the major oil companies.