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admin /13 December, 2008
San Diego in California launched its first shopping-centre based solar-array this week as retail property developer Westfield launched its showpiece contribution to the city’s University Town Centre program. The shopping centre features an ice skating rink that will use a large proportion of the electricity consumed by the shopping mall. The solar panels will provide half of the electricity requirements of the common areas of the shopping mall and ice rink, but the heavy power requirements of maintaining the ice in the rink itself will be met by the standard electricity grid. Westfield’s San Diego vice president, Jonathon Bradfield, denied charges of greenwashing. “This is a model for green development,” he said, “shoppers will be using clean, green power generated over their heads while they shop.”
admin /13 December, 2008
Gordon Brown faces a bruising battle at Thursday’s EU summit to persuade his fellow European leaders to back his proposal for subsidies to kickstart carbon capture and storage (CCS).
He wants more than 10bn euros for the technology, which would bury the emissions from burning fossil fuels, preventing them from contributing to global warming.
CCS is a key element of the climate package EU leaders are battling over, which aims to ensure the bloc meets its ambitious carbon-cut targets of 20% by 2020. The British prime minister is demanding that the EU sets aside 500m pollution permits from a special pot under the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to provide as much as 15bn euros to fund up to 12 CCS demonstration projects by 2015.
admin /13 December, 2008
Three weeks after calling for an energy revolution, chief executive of the International Energy Agency, Nobuo Tanaka, told the climate conference in Poznan last week that oil supplies have peaked and will begin a sharp decline of around 6.7 percent each year. He told the conference that the alternatives are to find renewable alternatives, or face major economic collapse. He said the shortages in oil have been masked by the sudden end in speculative trading as a result of the financial crisis, and a short term decrease in demand. Despite this, he predicts demand of 106million barrels a day by 2030 which requires an extra 67 million barrels a day to be found, six times what is currently produced by Saudi Arabia.
admin /7 December, 2008
From The Land
After the dust settles from the sell off across commodities triggered by the global financial crisis, agricultural commodities will benefit from a secure demand outlook and tight supplies to outperform metals and oil in 2009.
Regardless of the gloomy macroeconomic outlook people still need to eat; therefore agricultural commodities will be more resilient during the economic downturn.
admin /7 December, 2008
The Federal Parliament today passed crucial reforms on the management of the Murray-Darling Basin, in another significant step towards sustainable basin water use and healthy rivers and wetlands.
Passage of the Water Amendment Bill 2008 through Federal Parliament followed the passage of complementary legislation in four State parliaments.
“The approval of these reforms marks a critical change in how Australia’s most important river system, the Murray Darling Basin, is managed,” Minister for Water, Senator Penny Wong, said.
“The centrepiece of the reforms is the development of a new Basin Plan and sustainable diversion limit, or ‘cap’, on the basin’s surface and groundwater resources.
admin /7 December, 2008
The National Irrigators Council has welcomed the passage of the Water Amendment Bill 2008 through the Federal Parliament subsequent to all basin states passing referral legislation.
Council CEO Andrew Gregson says that while the bill is imperfect, irrigators wanted it passed, so that focus could be directed to the Basin Plan.
