The thing I’ve found most fascinating about the responses to the Treasury’s ETS modelling released yesterday is how, all of a sudden, a pile of big coal’s biggest fans are agreeing with us that coal with geosequestration isn’t going to come cheap!
Malcolm Turnbull, for example, told the media yesterday that “The cost of carbon capture [...]
What’s hot today in green news.
Humans: will they ever get it? Voting Americans are concerned about climate change, yes, but they’re WAY more worried about energy prices. A broad range of opinion surveys conducted in the final months of the 2008 campaign “reaffirm that economic issues — particularly the high cost of energy — far [...]
Each day Crikey publishes a collection of links to stories about the environment which catch our eye. From today, State of the Planet, as readers of the Crikey daily email will know it, will be published here too. Hope ya dig.
Kevin Rudd is firm on carbon cut plan. The Rudd Government will press ahead [...]
Consider this question put to respondents in the latest Oz Newspoll on where an Emissions Trading Scheme stands in the public’s mind in the wake of the global financial meltdown:
Under a carbon pollution reduction scheme, the price of energy sources, such as petrol, electricity and gas may become more expensive. Do you think the federal [...]
Eliot Fishman is the Director of the Institute for Sensible Transport, an independent think-tank providing strategic advice on transport and oil vulnerability. Rooted asked Eliot to share his thoughts on Rudd’s infrastructure agenda and what it means for climate and getting around our cities.
As the global economic meltdown slows Australia’s commodity led economy, the [...]
Gary Johns is a former minister in the Keating Labor government.
In a terrific piece in todays Australian Newspaper he says that the Emissions Trading Scheme will require Australians to pay for something that will have zero impact on climate change.
“THE one certainty of climate change (anthropogenic or not) is that it is unstoppable. Government advertisements [...]
Under the proposed emissions trading scheme, some of Australia’s most polluting companies stand to receive massive public handouts. It’s a essentially a form of corporate welfare – and the figures are quite staggering as I wrote in my posting earlier this week. These are the same companies that have been lobbying against climate action for [...]
The last three days have been quite a revelation of exactly what’s going on in Tasmania’s forests. Regardless of the rhetoric of sensitive management of the forests, the real story is one of wantonly sending species towards extinction and viciously attacking those brave souls who stand up for protection.
On Monday, Bob Brown launched a new [...]
The idea that polluting businesses should be given compensation based on their historic pollution is a curious one. Well, curious is a generous word for it.
The Australian Conservation Foundation released a report this week which showed that, based on the model outlined in the federal Government’s Greenpaper on emissions trading, Australia’s biggest polluters would receive [...]
Rooted invited Fergus Hanson, Research Associate at the Lowy Institute, to unpack the surprising findings on climate change from its 2008 Poll.
It can sometimes be hard to interpret Australian attitudes towards climate change. Lowy Institute polling over the years suggested most Australians are very concerned about it and want action. The ALP seemed to tap [...]
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