Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
According to Neil James, Executive director of Australia Defence
Association, Federal Labor MP Daryl Melham (“Anti-terrorism measures
call for more opposition”, Opinion, October 31) thoroughly sinks his
own argument in his first sentence, (The Australian Financial Review, 8 November 2005, p. 65).
`Real Oil Crisis’ on ABC TV What would happen if the world were to start running out of oil? Conventional wisdom says we’ve got 30 years, but there’s a growing fear amongst petroleum experts it’s happening much sooner than we thought – that we are hitting the beginning of the end of oil now. So Continue Reading →
The European Union Emission Trading Scheme launched earlier this year has led to the emergence of carbon trading as a truly global commodity market. Estimated to be worth as much as $10 billion next year the trading of carbon credits is driven by the Kyoto Protocol. As the US and Australia have not signed the Continue Reading →
Alternate energy companies are moving
off-shore as existing targets are reached, according to The
Australian newspaper. Wind now generates nearly 400Megawatts of
electricity, saving 1.5million tonnes of greenhouse gas emmissions
each year. This represents an investment of nearly $4billion dollars.
Babcock Brown, and other investors say there is no point investing
further as the government has not lifted the mandatory emission
reduction targets.
Hydro Tasmania today commented on a call by the Greens’ Tim Morris for
an independent study into cloud seeding. In a Hydro Tasmania media
release (8 November 2005), Executive General Manager Roger Gill said
cloud seeding was an important measure to assist in the sustainability
of Tasmania’s power system, which relied on water resources to provide
electricity to Tasmanian homes and industry.
The Environment Protection and Heritage Council and the Natural
Resource Management Ministerial Council are calling for public imput
into their national guidelines for water recycling before it is
finalised. Focus at this stage is assessing risk factors involved with
recycling water.