Archived-Australia’s Proposed Emission Trading Scheme-The Tax Policy Dimension With Australia moving towards an integrated action to reduce carbon emissions, including developing an Australian Emissions Trading Scheme (AETS), the effects of such a scheme need to be properly addressed by the Australian tax system. A joint report of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (the Institute) Continue Reading →
How a wind farm could emit more carbon than a coal power station Building wind farms built on peat bogs, which can release their huge carbon stores when damaged, is not sensible Fred Pearce guardian.co.uk, Thursday 13 August 2009 08.00 BST Article history An undisturbed peat bog at Bad a’ Cheo in the Caithness region Continue Reading →
Greenwash: Why ‘clean coal’ is the ultimate climate change oxymoron The people who told us for years that climate change was a myth now say it’s all true – but something called ‘clean coal’ can fix it. This is pure and utter greenwash, says Fred Pearce. Fred Pearce guardian.co.uk, Thursday 26 February 2009 12.13 GMT Continue Reading →
Another inconvenient truth The century of cheap energy is behind us – in the future we are all going to have to work longer and harder to pay for it. Ron Oxburgh guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 July 2008 20.00 BST Article history The chemistry teacher came in with a box under her arm. “Does anyone believe Continue Reading →
ETS disillusion and dissolution By Glenn Milne From: The Sunday Telegraph August 08, 2009 8:05PM ETS disillusionand dissolutionClerk of the Senate Harry Evans’ conclusion that a double dissolution cannot deliver the Rudd government’s Emissions Trading Scheme has the potential to send the administration back to the drawing board and to recast the entire ETS Continue Reading →
July 27, 2009 CHP Electricity Powers Cars 22 Times Farther Than Ethanol! by Thomas R. Blakeslee, Clearlight Foundation Cheap fossil fuel has allowed us to waste the majority of our energy, filling the planet with pollution and waste heat. Our car engines are only 25% efficient and coal power plants are not much better. Corn Continue Reading →