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admin /7 February, 2009
From The Guardian
Environmentalists have strongly criticised attempts to “strong arm” developing countries such as India into a binding commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions after the United Nations secretary general asked poorer nations to “get on board” with the industrialised world to find solutions to the climate crisis.
Ban Ki-moon told the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit that although “Brazil has been taking a quite proactive role in the implementation of biofuel and forestation policies. China and India have also taken steps. But that is not enough, they have to do more.”
admin /7 February, 2009
Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) says it has identified six landfills in Melbourne’s south-east that are emitting methane gas. The EPA audited about 260 former and current sites, after dangerous levels of methane gas leaked from a landfill into a Cranbourne housing estate last year. The six sites are in Lyndhurst, Clayton South and Springvale Continue Reading →
admin /7 February, 2009
The Rees government is set to replicate the planning errors of Sydney’s desalination plant by imposing an expensive and unnecessary water supply project on Newcastle residents, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Commenting on a story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (‘Build and be dammed’), Dr Kaye said: “The $406 million dam at Tillegra near Dungog is set to become a monument to poor decision making.
admin /7 February, 2009
Water restrictions have been eased this weekend so children can play under garden sprinklers during the current heatwave. The state government has relaxed level three water restrictions across the Sydney, Illawarra and Blue Mountains region, allowing sprinklers to be turned on outside prohibited hours on Saturday and on Sunday. Weekend temperatures are expected to soar Continue Reading →
admin /7 February, 2009
The price of carbon has hit new lows as power generators and industrial companies continue to cash in credits under the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to bolster their balance sheets.
The price of European Union allowances under the second phase of the ETS has plunged to €10.15 (£8.8) per tonne compared with highs of more than €30 in July last year.
Analysts at Barclays Capital warned the price could fall further to €9 while Utilyx, the carbon information provider, said: “There seems to be no bottom to carbon prices at the moment.”
admin /7 February, 2009
From The Guardian The current nuclear renaissance started in Finland when a local electricity provider received permission and then started to build the first new nuclear power station in Europe for 30 years. It was followed by France whose state owned electricity supplier, EDF, is constructing a new plant at Flamanville in Normandy and has Continue Reading →
