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$2 billion Australian water fund untouched; not a single drop of environmental flow has gone back into Murray: Labor questions Govt commitment Although the 500 gigalitres of water the Federal Government had committed to putting back into the Murray was only a third of what was needed, even that had not been achieved over the Continue Reading →
Queensland’s then premier, Peter Beattie, told the Queensland Legislative Assembly on 5 September 2007 that he was pleased to report to the House that a major milestone had been reached in the drought-proofing of the south-east corner of Queensland.
13 megalitres of water delivered daily: "While many said it could not be done, including the whingers opposite," Beattie said, "the Deputy Premier, the member for Bundamba and I were at the Swanbank Power Station last Monday, 27 August when the first flow of purified recycled water from the Bundamba Advanced Water Treatment Plant was delivered. And was it sweet! All the knockers and whingers said that it could not be done, and while they are still whingeing it has been done. … This stage of the water grid is currently delivering 13 megalitres of water a day to Swanbank – the equivalent to the daily drinking supply of a community approaching the size of Ipswich or Logan.
Secretary of State Rice has acknowledged a communique from Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Levni which requests that all foreign aid payments and loans from the United States be made in Euros rather than in Dollars. Foreign Minister Levni cited the rapidly declining dollar and it’s disfavor as a world currency as reasons for the request. Continue Reading →
Turkey is set to double the amount of its electricity supplied by wind power with the construction of the biggest wind farm to date. The wind farm in southeast Turkey will have an installed capacity of 135 megawatts (MW) when it is completed in 2009.
General Electric (GE) Energy will be supplying 52 of its latest generation of turbines with a capacity of 2.5 MW each.
"Turkey is a fast growing and very interesting market for the wind business of GE," Frank Hoersting, Communications Leader of GE Energy, Renewable Energy, Europe, told RenewableEnergyAccess.com.
The wind turbines have 3 rotor blades, each with a diameter of 100 meters, and are able to operate at wind speeds as low as 19 mph as well as sweep about 8,000 square meters, the company says, making them 12% more efficient.
The Greens today successfully moved a motion in the Senate to establish
an Inquiry into the future of agriculture in a drying climate.
"We desperately need a strategy to make certain that policy settings
are consistent in addressing both food security and the need to help
our agricultural sector deal with climate change and to provide the
practical assistance needed to adapt," said Senator Rachel Siewert
today.
"Continuing business as usual is not acceptable."
"Securing food and fuel supplies on the driest continent on earth in the
face of climate change needs a complete rethink about how and what we do
in agriculture," said Senator Milne.
Scientists working for Ceravision, a company based in Milton Keynes, in Britain, have designed a new form of lamp that eliminates the need for electrodes, reported The Economist (8/9/2007, p.4). Their device uses microwaves to transform electricity into light. It consists of a relatively small lump of aluminium oxide into which a hole has been Continue Reading →