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admin /26 June, 2008
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TREASURER Wayne Swan has hinted the Government may defy its chief climate change adviser Ross Garnaut’s recommendations to deliver a broad-based emissions trading scheme that includes transport costs amid reports the Government will delay putting a carbon price on petrol.
The climate change question dominated question time today, with the Transport Minister Anthony Albanese accusing the Opposition of having “more positions than the kama sutraâ€, particularly over the inclusion of petrol in any emissions trading scheme.
admin /26 June, 2008
By Fiona Harvey in the Financial Times The market in greenhouse gas emissions could outstrip the conventional commodities markets to become the biggest traded commodity, the head of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission said yesterday. Bart Chilton, commissioner of the CTFC, said: “The potential size and scope of a structured carbon emissions market in Continue Reading →
admin /8 June, 2008
Decades of easy access to cheap nitrogen appear to be coming to an end as urea prices surge toward $1000 a tonne. The hunt is on for alternatives.
As CSIRO scientist Dr John Angus observes, oil-derived fertilisers “are the only flexible nitrogen option we have”.
But there are less flexible options, and some are proving to have advantages well beyond their role in replacing synthetic nitrogen.
After 12 years of research into legume rotations with cotton, CSIRO/Cotton Catchment Communities CRC scientist Dr Ian Rochester is confident that farming systems can be developed that won’t always need annual nitrogen fertiliser applications to be profitable.
admin /8 June, 2008
From The Land The best policy response to food shortages is to let the market do its thing, according to the National Farmers Federation. Responding to the release of a new report “High Food Prices – Causes, Implications and Solutions”, NFF president, David Crombie, said if the United Nations’ stated goal of a 30pc increase Continue Reading →
admin /8 June, 2008
The Fertiliser price hike has continued apace – and the bad news for Australian growers is that international price rises are going up faster than domestic ones. With most farmers already sorted for their 2008 phosphate needs, the jump of close to $200/t in phosphate (P) products such as MAP and DAP in the past Continue Reading →
admin /8 June, 2008
Responding to the IPART review of CityRail services, Greens MP and transport spokesperson Lee Rhiannon said today the NSW Pricing Tribunal should withdraw its call for fare increases and heavy job cuts. “IPART’s recommendations of massive fare hikes and front line service sackings reveals that it has failed to understand the new priorities of regulating Continue Reading →
