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Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer has confirmed the Government’s intentions to sign a uranium export deal with Russia.
Mr Downer says he hopes negotiations will be finalised during President Vladamir Putin’s visit to Australia next month.
He says Australia should support responsible countries wanting to use uranium to fuel civil power stations.
Revelations of the importance of greenhouse gas emissions and water usage in producing consumer goods highlight the need for state and federal governments to inform consumers of the consequences of their choices, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Commenting on a University of Sydney and Australian Conservation Foundation study (Sydney Morning Herald, page 1) Dr Kaye said: "Many consumers are completely unaware that common food items in their shopping trolleys like beef and soft drinks and many consumer durables form a major part of their household's contribution to both global warming and water usage."
The Australian Federal Parliament’s Standing Committee on Science and Innovation recently completed a report entitled Between a Rock and a Hard Place, on the subject of "Geosequestration of Carbon Dioxide". However, four members of that committee have issued a "Dissenting Report" which devastates the Committee’s major premise—that mankind causes global warming.
The dissenting MPs are former CSIRO scientist Dr. Dennis Jensen, Hon Jackie Kelly, Hon Danna Vale and Mr. David Tollner. Their report was compiled with the assistance of a number of leading scientists, including climate scientist Dr. John Christy, former lead author of the IPCC. It is a must read for anyone concerned with the subject.
They state at the very outset that, "We disagree with the report’s unequivocal support for the hypothesis that global warming is caused by man—so-called anthropogenic global warming (AGW). We are concerned that the Committee’s report strays well outside its terms of reference. In fact, the committee did not take any evidence relating to anthropogenic global warming."
Prime Minister John Howard has named a location in his own federal electorate as a potential site for a nuclear reactor.
Mr Howard has told Parliament he supports nuclear power as part of the solution to climate change.
But he says it is not viable yet.
Mr Howard says when it does become economical, it would be up to the market to decide where reactors are built.
AAP | August 13, 2007
SOUTH Australian power consumers who switch to solar power will be paid double the price for any electricity they return to the national grid under legislation unveiled today.
Consumers to be paid double for solar electricity Solar ADELAIDE, Aug 13 AAP –
The state government said its solar feed-in legislation would allow consumers to be paid 44 cents a kilowatt hour, double the standard retail price.
It hoped the move would encourage more people to convert their homes to solar.
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