It seems as though Malcolm Turnbull has finally managed to align the coalition on climate change at least enough for them to stop kicking own goals and bridge their credibility gap with the ALP. With the coalition and ALP now supporting the same conditional emissions reduction target, the public will be hard pressed to distinguish [...]
Last year, over 150 people were arrested for engaging in civil disobedience and direct action to stop the expansion of the coal industry. In the tradition of Martin Luther King, Ghandi and the Suffragettes, people the world over are increasingly taking to the streets and putting their bodies on the line to help force real [...]
The Wilkins Review just got buried. In previous times, the handing down of this report would have been timed for maximum effect to build pressure against direct regulatory measures that support renewable energy. Instead it was buried on a busy news day immediately after the Gov’t announced $1.5 billion of direct investment in solar energy.
Roger [...]
Last night’s budget included $1.5 billion over six years in a new Solar Flagships program. “The program will aim to establish an additional 1,000 megawatts of solar electricity generation capacity in Australia. This is similar to the generation capacity of a coal fired power station.”
At the same time it included $2 billion for carbon capture [...]
The ground is slowly but surely shifting under the coal industry. The UK and Canada have both recently announced policies that effectively mean no new coal plants without operating carbon capture and storage – essentially calling industry’s bluff. And today it was reported that some of Australia’s most prominent climate scientists and IPCC authors have [...]
In the leadup to the UN meeting in Copenhagen in December to finalise the next global agreement to cut greenhouse emissions, there are a series of meetings to thrash out the detail of the negotiating text.
I must admit that everytime anyone tries to explain the detail of the negotiations my ears start to bleed. [...]
On Saturday, the worlds largest coal export port didn’t have a single coal ship coming or going between 9am and 5pm. And it wasn’t for lack of demand. The mouth of Newcastle harbour was off limits to coal ships for the day as hundreds of people took to the water in open display of people [...]
The Australian Industry Group is today calling for the introduction of the Government’s emissions trading scheme to be delayed for two years as a result of the global financial mess.
According to the SMH, the Australian Industry Group’s national executive, Heather Ridout, declared the Government’s plan to start the emissions trading scheme in July 2010 was [...]
It’s been an interesting week. Wayne Swan managed to keep a straight face when he cancelled the Parliamentary Inquiry that he had called only a week earlier, on the basis that it had ‘become politicised’. Now the Government is under pressure from all sides over it’s proposed Emissions Trading Scheme. The Coalition, desperate to deflect [...]
Yesterday, Wayne Swan asked the House Economics Committee to inquire into and report on the choice of emissions trading as the central policy to reduce Australia’s carbon pollution. WTF?
This is bizarre. The ALP committed to an emissions trading scheme years ago. As did the coalition. In the December White paper, the Government has came up [...]
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