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Country Energy trial of in-house Smart Meters in 200 homes in country NSW; households cut energy consumption by 5pc and their electricity costs by 16pc In a submission to the Owen Inquiry into Electricity Supply in NSW, Liberal MP Michael Richardson, Member for Castle Hill, said, the NEMMCO paper simply assumed a continuing growth in Continue Reading →
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So far our Federal food regulator, FSANZ, has rubber stamped for human consumption every GE crop that has come across its desk. Last month was no exception, with FSANZ publishing an initial assessment of Syngenta’s alpha-amylase maize that rubber stamped the corn as safe. This is despite South Africa recently rejecting the maize, due to concerns about its potential human health impacts.
The maize is the first GE crop specifically designed to be used in bioethanol production and is not intended for human consumption. However, Syngenta is applying for human food and feed approval because it has acknowledged that the contamination of our food chain is inevitable, if the maize is grown. If Australia approves Syngenta’s GE maize, it would be the first country to do so.
The gas shortfall has been created by soaring demand from industry in the booming WA economy and exacerbated recently by a failed upgrade at the Woodside-managed North-West Shelf Venture, which suspended marketing of larger volumes of gas to potential buyers in the domestic market, wrote Andrew Burrell in The Australian Financial Review (18/6/2007, p.6).
Greenhouse implications: The upgrade was meant to have boosted the capacity of the venture’s domestic gas trains by 100 terajoules a day from its current level of 500TJ to 600TJ a day, and the work was now unlikely to be completed until late 2008. Several start-up projects in WA’s mining industry have been unable to secure long-term contracts for gas and have opted for coal, which could lead to an increase in the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Iranians are about to commit an "offense" far greater than Saddam Hussein’s conversion to the euro of Iraq’s oil exports in the fall of 2000. Numerous articles have revealed Pentagon planning for operations against Iran as early as 2005. While the publicly stated reasons will be over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, there are unspoken macroeconomic drivers explaining the Real Reasons regarding the 2nd stage of petrodollar warfare – Iran’s upcoming euro-based oil Bourse.
Peter Noble has run the Blues Fest with Michael Chugg since 2004 when the Oxley’s sold the Festival they started a decade earlier. Controversy has dogged the festival for years, as it has outgrown first the Arts Factory and secondly, the Red Devil sports ground. In February 2005, it emerged that the new owners had Continue Reading →
During the Tasmanian House of Assembly (12/6/07), Nicholas McKim, Member for Franklin of the Greens, said that this year’s State Budget looked very much like groundhog day. Pulp mill a sham: Not only does it appear as if, once again, Treasury has overestimated the economic growth underpinning this year’s Budget but it has also factored Continue Reading →