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  • Greens offer stable leadership, climate action now

    Greens offer stable leadership, climate change action

    “A strong safe crossbench in the Senate” – Brown

    “I offer the electorate experienced and stable leadership, and the
    progressive policies and clear vision for Australia’s future which the
    big parties are ignoring,” Australian Greens Leader Senator Brown said
    in Canberra today.

    “Moving forward will mean a carbon tax on polluters; bringing home
    safely Australia’s troops from Afghanistan; a universal dental care
    scheme; humane treatment of asylum seekers in Australia; protecting our
    forests and wildlife.”

    “This election is also about the Senate and a strong crossbench
    delivering better outcomes for Australians. The Greens are the
    responsible alternative to a deadlocked Abbott controlled Senate.”

    “The Greens will campaign strongly on environmental issues including
    climate change action, the creation of marine national parks, protecting
    native forests and wildlife and saving the Darling Downs farmlands from
    40,000 coal seam gas drill holes and open cut coalmines,” Senator Brown
    said.

    Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown flew to Canberra from Sydney this
    morning to get the Greens’ national campaign off to a flying start.

    Senator Brown, who spoke last night to a packed campaign dinner in
    Sydney for Senate candidate Lee Rhiannon MLC, will be in Canberra and
    Hobart on Sunday, and Adelaide on Tuesday morning.

    Media contact: Erin Farley 0438 376 082

    www.greensmps.org.au

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  • Study lists properties at risk of rising sea levels

    Study lists properties at risk of rising sea levels

    ABC July 16, 2010, 11:39 am

     

     

     

    Wollongong City Council’s coastal zone study has identified more than 2,600 properties which could be affected by a major storm if sea levels rise 90 centimetres by 2100.

    Council spokeswoman Renee Campbell says a 90-centimetre increase in sea level is the New South Wales Government standard.

    She says the study is quite a contrast to a Federal Government report which suggested 6,000 properties were at risk.

    “The study that’s been done by council has been done at a finer scale and does identify significantly less properties in the area potentially affected by sea level rises and coastal hazards,” Ms Campbell said.

    The affected areas include low-lying parts of Thirroul, Woonona, Bellambi and Lake Illawarra and also some headland areas north of Bulli.

    The study and associated maps will be made public next Monday, but affected landholders should already have been notified by mail.

    Ms Campbell says council will hold a series of information sessions for residents before drawing up a management plan.

    She says the Insurance Council of Australia advises home insurance should not be affected by the study, but people are urged to seek their own advice.

    “We have been advised that the risks from any coastal hazard are presently excluded from the risks on any general policy insurance police in Australia,” she said.

    “They’re currently working with Government and the productivity commission on the issue of coastal vulnerability.”

     

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  • Businesses burnt by batts fiasco sue

     

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    Swaab’s aim is to approach the Government by the end of August. If a settlement cannot be negotiated Swaab is likely to recommend its clients take action in the Federal Court.

    Swaab yesterday declined to comment.

    Hunt & Hunt partner Andrew Hudson said last night the freight companies had “legitimate claims”.

    One company participating in Hunt & Hunt’s action, Sydney freight forwarder AFL Ambassador, is owed more than $200,000 from a client which ordered insulation.

    “My business has been seriously affected. Nothing is being done to assist businesses in my position,” AFL Ambassador director Mark Willis said.

    Meanwhile, households nervous about insulation fitted in their homes may have to wait until next winter for a safety inspection.

    If home inspections continue at the current rate, about 2000 per week, it would be at least 12 months before the remaining 109,000 batt-filled roofs are inspected. Four deaths and 190 fires have been linked to the scheme.

    A new report by Coalition senators yesterday called for a royal commission to investigate the “gross and systemic failures” in the development and implementation of the program”, as well as the role of government ministers and senior executives.

    It also recommended 1.2 million homes insulated under the scheme be inspected.

     

  • Central NSW, Australia, throws down the gauntlet!

    Central NSW, Australia, throws down the gauntlet!

    The 17 Councils of Central NSW, Australia, are throwing down the gauntlet to challenge other regions for the title of the most resilient region in the world. To put their hand up for the title of the world’s most resilient region, they’re showcasing new stories every week on what individuals, community groups, organisations, schools, businesses and the councils themselves are doing to build resilience in their region via the blog, The Shiny Halo. They’re throwing down the gauntlet to anyone who prides themselves on their resilience to come and tell them about it – they dare other regions to match them blog for blog to prove that they’re more resilient! Of course, even if any other region can even remotely match what they’re doing, Central NSW Councils are in a win/win position … for every action posted on The Shiny Halo, another tree gets planted in their region. This may well be the ultimate form of resilience – finding a way to get the whole world involved in rebuilding your forests!

    So, are they right? Does anyone dare to meet their challenge, or will their claim on the title go uncontested? Check it out at www.shinyhalo.com

    If their strategy works, it may also well be a way to tackle the reforesting of the world, region by region.

     

    One of Central NSW Councils’ (Centroc) most recent actions is to organise the first ever 100% Electric Vehicle Challenge on Mt Panorama Raceway in Bathurst on Thursday 29th July. Electric Vehicles, including the Tesla Roadster, will be coming to Bathurst from all over the country to demonstrate the state of the art in electric vehicle technology. The Challenge is being supported by an Expo that will showcase recharging options as well as renewable energy and resilience options for the region, including geothermal heat pumps, newly developed small wind turbines, Australian made solar panels and the full range of bikes, from recumbent to electric, which will be utilised by the mayors of the region in the first ever Mayoral Bike Ride in Central NSW.

    To find out more you can visit www.centroc.com.au

    Lis Bastian

    Central NSW Councils

  • SA could be major wind energy supplier: Premier

    SA could be major wind energy supplier: Premier

    Updated 38 minutes ago

    A study of South Australia’s renewable energy potential says the state could export green power to eastern Australia.

    It proposes doubling wind power generation on Eyre Peninsula through private investment.

    SA Premier Mike Rann says four energy companies have expressed interest in the idea and SA could meet 30 per cent of the nation’s renewable energy target.

    “It’s really us stepping in to fill a gap for the eastern states who’ll find it hard to meet that target,” he said.

    “I mean ultimately it’s good the environment. It’s also of course unlocking a resource that’s sustainable for the long term.”

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  • Huge gas reserves found off NSW

    Huge gas reserves found off NSW

    Updated 1 hour 46 minutes ago

    A shipment of Liquified Natural Gas

    Shipments of gas like this one could one day leave the NSW coast. (Kerry Edwards/Pool/The West Australian.)

    Tests have found natural gas resources off the New South Wales coast north of Sydney could be double the size first thought, rivalling the massive gas reserve in the Bass Strait.

    Advent Energy has a permit to explore for natural gas 50 kilometres out to sea in the Offshore Sydney basin and is focusing on an area 25 kilometres off Newcastle.

    Seismic testing has been positive and the company says new technical data shows the estimated prospective recoverable resources are much larger than predicted.

    Executive director David Breeze says the area was originally thought to have 6 trillion cubic feet of gas but that has been revised to 13 trillion.

    “If we are successful in what we are looking at, then we could have as much gas as the Bass Strait,” he said.

    “The Sydney Basin is a gassy basin. That could be extremely significant in terms of the capacity for the reduction of CO2 emissions.”

    The company has secured a rig from the Bass Strait to drill an exploratory well later this year.

    Tags: business-economics-and-finance, oil-and-gas, nsw, newcastle-2300