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From the Sydney Morning HeraldÂ
An Australian joint venture is planning to drill off the NSW coast in search of oil and gas in a move that has outraged green groups.
The venture says the skyrocketing world oil price has made it feasible to establish a drilling rig 22 kilometres offshore between the Central Coast and Newcastle, The Sunday Telegraph newspaper reports.
One of the firms, Perth-based MEC Resources, says air surveys indicate there is petroleum at the target site.
From The New York TimesÂ
The Bush administration, bowing to a court order, has released a fresh summary of federal and independent research pointing to large, and mainly harmful, impact of human-caused global warming in the United States.
The report, released Thursday, is online at climatescience.gov, along with a new report updating the administration’s priorities for climate research.
World rice prices have doubled in 12 months but that hasn’t helped Riverina growers. Australia has recorded its smallest crop due to a lack of irrigation water. The Riverina, NSW, is traditionally the country’s largest rice producer. But in the past season just 30 of 2500 growers planted crops and the final harvest was down Continue Reading →
Last month, San Francisco became the largest city to try to mandate recycling. This week, Bay Area regulators approved the nation’s first pollution fee for businesses. And in Washington D.C., President Bush’s “regulatory trainwreck” nightmares just got a little worse.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District’s board of directors approved the unprecedented new rules by a 15-1 vote yesterday. The new measure will assess a fee on businesses of 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide emitted.
From Farm Weekly WA
The first phase of the Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling (AGWR) and how to manage risk associated with recycled water will be highlighted in a paper to be presented at the annual national conference of the Australian Veterinary Association (AVA).
The paper will be presented by Dr David Cunliffe from the SA Department of Health
Dr David Cunliffe says that there is a long history of using recycled water, particularly treated sewage, for livestock watering or production of pasture.
The potential for a record cropping season in WA this year is on a knife edge, with rain now needed urgently to realise the optimistic ProFarmer crop forecast released this week. While most of WA’s South West districts benefitted from heavy rain last weekend, to set up record canola and wheat plantings, the major broadacre Continue Reading →