Coal train pollution not too bad: Albanese AAPUpdated March 16, 2013, 4:05 pm tweet Email Print AAP © Enlarge photo Federal transport minister Anthony Albanese says dust pollution from coal trains isn’t significantly higher than from passenger trains after opponents of a new coal terminal staged a protest rally in Newcastle. Hundreds of people from Continue Reading →
170,000 new homes for Sydney AAPUpdated March 16, 2013, 4:23 pm tweet Email Print AAP © Enlarge photo Up to 171,000 homes will be built across Sydney and almost 90,000 jobs created under a plan to rezone and develop new and existing suburbs, the NSW government says. Announcing the plan in the northwest suburb of Continue Reading →
Capstone Turbine installs methane-fueled C200 at CONSOL Energy gas plant 0 Facebook 1 Twitter 0 LinkedIn 1 Share Sponsored by CONSOL Energy Inc. estimates that the clean-and-green 200kW microturbine will eliminate 6,486 tons of carbon dioxide produced from coal bed methane from the atmosphere each year. Anticipated annual energy cost savings is $80,000. Capstone distributor Continue Reading →
Australian media strategy Lanai Scarr The Daily Telegraph March 16, 201312:00AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print Email Share 0 Stephen Conroy ‘Gun to the head’ Conroy’s consultation claim ‘b… ‘Rise up to defend free speech… Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy / Pic: Ray Strange Source: The Australian » Watch ‘Gun to the head’ Continue Reading →
CFMEU braces for next chapter in ICAC probe By Nonee Walsh, ABCUpdated March 16, 2013, 8:12 am tweet Email Print The coal miners’ union is bracing itself for a damaging series of revelations from an anti-corruption inquiry involving a well-respected former leader. The Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) probe into the granting of mining licences Continue Reading →
Life Deep Within Oceanic Crust Sustained by Energy from Interior of Earth Mar. 14, 2013 — The core drill slides through a drill pipe, extending from the drill ship at the sea surface, through a water depth of 2.5 km and hundreds of metres of sediment, into the oceanic crust off the west coast of Continue Reading →