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Australian company snubbed for solar panel job

admin /13 July, 2010

Australian company snubbed for solar panel job

By Sarah Clarke

Posted 1 hour 22 minutes ago

The Federal Government has come under attack for failing to include Australia’s only domestic producer of solar panels in a Commonwealth tender.

The $1.5 billion Solar Flagship program is committed to building up to four large-scale solar power plants in Australia.

But Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) spokesman Tim Ayres says Australian company Silex was overlooked and the Federal Government has chosen overseas competitors instead.

“This company is going to be a successful company into the future but this is an important opportunity to use a Government program to deliver for Australian manufacturing,” he said.

We’re going backwards together under Gillard

admin /13 July, 2010

We’re going backwards together under Gillard

LABOR has failed to get pedalling on economic reform.

TRADE economists liken economic reform to riding a bike: stop pedalling and you’ll stall, fall and struggle to get going again. You won’t “move forward together”, as Julia Gillard urged yesterday.

Contrary to some suggestions, Gillard’s truce with the miners doesn’t mean the end of genuine economic reform under Labor. Rather, it illustrates that Labor’s reform agenda never got pedalling in the first place.

Yes, the miners’ truce signals that vested interests can undercut economic reform and even politically decapitate a prime minister.

But Kevin Rudd won office on the back of the ACTU’s devastating scare campaign – worth $30 million according to some estimates – against John Howard’s labour market liberalisation. The reward to Labor’s industrial wing is the first serious reversal of the economic reform agenda of the past generation.

Tripodi referred to corruption watchdog

admin /13 July, 2010

Tripodi referred to corruption watchdog July 13, 2010 – 11:38AM Joe Tripodi … has been referred to the ICAC. Photo: Rob Homer Controversial NSW Labor MP Joe Tripodi has been referred to the state corruption watchdog over claims he told a former chief of NSW Maritime to create a $200,000 job, then recommended two Labor Continue Reading →

Significat geothermal energy reserves discovered

admin /13 July, 2010

‘Significant’ geothermal energy reserves discovered Peta Carlyon, ABC July 13, 2010, 12:00 pm     Studies of underground water tables in Victoria’s north and west have revealed a significant new store of geothermal energy reserves. Geothermal energy is a clean renewable resource and is generated from hot rocks and aquifers deep below the earth’s surface. Continue Reading →

US imposes new freeze on deepwater drilling

admin /13 July, 2010

US imposes new freeze on deepwater drilling

Posted 5 hours 5 minutes ago

The US government has issued a new moratorium on deepwater drilling until November 30, to ensure oil companies implement safety measures following the Gulf of Mexico disaster.

“More than 80 days into the BP oil spill, a pause on deepwater drilling is essential and appropriate to protect communities, coasts, and wildlife from the risks that deepwater drilling currently pose,” interior secretary Ken Salazar in a statement.

“I am basing my decision on evidence that grows every day of the industry’s inability in the deepwater to contain a catastrophic blowout, respond to an oil spill, and to operate safely.”

The move comes days after an appeals court denied the government’s emergency request to stay a federal judge’s ruling to lift its previous six-month moratorium order.

Souless corporations are the enemy of the environment.’says Pavan Sukhdev

admin /12 July, 2010

‘Soulless corporations are the enemy of the environment,’ says Pavan Sukhdev

It is up to society and its leaders to ensure that companies do not become cancerous, says leading UN official

 

Caroline Spelman Environment secretary Caroline Spelman will speak at the first Global Business of Biodiversity Symposium in London. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images

Modern businesses are “soulless corporations” that are in danger of becoming a “cancer” on society, a leading UN environmental official warns today.

Companies usually take a short-term view of the importance of the environment, said Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN’s investigation into how to stop the destruction of the natural world. This short-term thinking is seen in their lobbying against new policies that could slow environmental devastation, he said.

Sukhdev, formerly an adviser to the Indian government and now on sabbatical from Deutsche Bank, spoke as he prepares to publish tomorrow one of the most eagerly awaited parts of his report – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) for Business.

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