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admin /6 June, 2010
BP’s spill of oil in troubled waters
There has been barely a mention that the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico (Deepwater disaster, 3 June) would have badly damaged the environment wherever it had ended up, ie it would have been refined, itself a dirty industrial process, and subsequently burned by the internal combustion engines of vehicles or in generators or boilers. Eventually, this would add to the acidification of the oceans and contribute to global warming, which itself is likely to trigger more hurricanes of a greater intensity. Both of these outcomes would be particularly detrimental to the area in question. The greater tragedy is that through our great oil companies we seem to be intent on extracting every last drop of this wretched fossil fuel before adapting our economy along truly sustainable lines. Perhaps spreading this particular batch of oil out for micro-orgnisms to deal with is the least damaging option.
admin /6 June, 2010
Don’t shore up minister’s seat – Greens
Updated: 13:17, Sunday June 6, 2010
The federal government is under fire for splashing money into Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s seat in a bid to ward off a Greens challenge.
The cabinet minister’s marginal inner-city seat of Melbourne has received more stimulus funds for school building, housing and infrastructure than any other Victorian electorate, a News Limited investigation has found.
Under the stimulus plan, the seat received $220 million in non-road and rail spending – $80 million more than its nearest neighbour.
Another $15 million in non-stimulus grants spending has been earmarked for Mr Tanner’s seat, News Limited said.
Australian Greens leader Bob Brown said it was not right for the government to be spending money to stem a challenge from the minor party.
admin /5 June, 2010
Poll puts Rudd in trouble on home turf
Posted 3 hours 25 minutes ago
The Galaxy poll published in the Courier Mail has the Coalition ahead of the Labor Party on a two-party-preferred basis of 52 to 48 per cent. (Reuters: Jonathan Ernst, file photo)
admin /4 June, 2010
MPs desert the sinking ship that is NSW Labor By Andrew Clennell From: The Daily Telegraph June 05, 2010 12:00AM Can’t control the party chaos … Premier Kristina Keneally / Pic: Tomasz Machnik Source: The Daily Telegraph NSW minister resigns KRISTINA Keneally lost two ministers in the space of just six hours yesterday Continue Reading →
admin /4 June, 2010
Viscount Monckton, another fallen idol of climate denial
Professor John Abraham’s withering scrutiny reveals how the gurus of climate scepticism repeat a pattern of manipulation
• Monckton takes scientist to brink of madness at climate talk
Viscount Monckton’s climate change scepticism has been discredited by Professor John Abraham. Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Another one bites the dust. Every so often, someone with a strong stomach and time to spare volunteers to devote weeks or months of their life to a grisly task: investigating the claims of a person who dismisses the science or significance of man-made climate change. Dave Rado did it with Martin Durkin’s film, the Great Global Warming Swindle. Howard Friel did it with Bjørn Lomborg. Ian Enting did it with Ian Plimer.
admin /4 June, 2010
BP shares top risers as engineers assess latest oil spill operation
• Cap placed on Deepwater Horizon wellhead
• Obama postpones trip to Australia and Indonesia to visit region
President Barack Obama on a visit to the Louisiana coast last month. He will be back in the region today. Photograph: Larry Downing/Reuters
BP has managed to place a cap on the shattered end of the deepwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico but it will be several hours until engineers will know how successful this latest attempt to halt the worst oil spill in US history has been.
The oil giant is hoping for some good news as president Barack Obama is due in the region later today on his third visit since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, having postponed his scheduled trip to Australia and Indonesia for the second time in as many months.
