Energy Efficiency

The State Government is facing a community revolt against its growth plans for the Sunshine Coast which now requires a minimum of 14,000 people at Palmview.

Angry community groups yesterday called on mayor Bob Abbot to tell the State Government to stop interfering with the region’s green objectives.

Mr Abbot has been told to tell Planning Minister Stirling Hinchliffe that changes to critical planning documents for the region were totally unacceptable. Council briefed key stakeholders, including land owners and community groups, on the implications of changes it was ordered by the state to make to Palmview green field development precinct.

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Often I pondered on why the Arabs called the USA the great Satan and because Yanks look like me more than Arabs and speak the same language as I do, it was easy to dismiss them; however, after a previous story I wrote earlier today about how the Obama adminstration is to spend $50 million on a media campaign to make the USA appear palatable plus spend over $1.5 billion in aid to Pakistan, I wonder ….

Climate Cover-Up – The Crusade to Deny Global Warming is a new book by James Hoggan (Chair of the David Suzuki Foundation and the Canadian Climate Project), which provides a timely and alarming overview of a global propaganda campaign that has – for over two decades and largely funded by the oil and gas industry, successfully – made the public believe that climate science is controversial, unproven and unworthy of united global action.

These industry funded PR campaigns represent a fundamental breach of public trust Hoggan argues and have meant that we have lost two decades when we should have taken much strong climate action – two critical decades. His book charts a litany of scientists and right wing think tanks who have been paid off by the energy industry to become the mouthpieces of climate confusion and denial.
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In late February, the federal government press release was that they had made changes to the renewable energy target scheme, saying that, by doing so, it will enable it to exceed a 20 % target by 2020.

Market demand for the scheme from new large-scale projects, such as wind farms and solar energy plants, has stalled partly because the government used it to reward households installing rooftop solar panels with an $8000 rebate; however, the government intends, from January 2011 to split the scheme into two parts: one for large-scale projects and a second for small-scale technologies such as solar panels and solar hot water systems.

‘We anticipate under these changes we will exceed our 20 % target by 2020′ Climate Change Minister Penny Wong told reporters in Canberra today. But she was reluctant to nominate by how much the target would be exceeded, saying that depended on (1) the take-up by households.
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The more we know, the more we realize how little we know.

As I am often wont to say, there are three organisations that run society; religion, corporations and government (which includes monarchy) and each has repeatedly been proven to lie, steal and cheat and operated like any ‘good business’, with the books (for tax purposes) and then there are the cooked books, which invite people to buy into what is being sold.

Long before I considered it, there were people who wanted to rule the world and when I became aware of it, I figured it couldn’t happen because in such a like minded group, you would always have those who feel they are more deserving, better suited or clinical enough to dispose of all in their path.

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