Energy Efficiency

Last night (Oct 20th) I saw an advertisement where a ‘coal miner’ used various tactics to intimidate, reason with or do a snow-job to convince the public that jobs were at stake by meeting the ETS (emission trading scheme).
What is clearly an initiative by the Coal Industry, they want to only pay for emissions post [...]

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This article by Christine Milne was published in New Matilda on 24 September

In one of those perfect ironies, Prime Minister Rudd’s announcement of his $100 million push to make Australia the global coal hub last Friday came on the same day that yet another so-called “clean coal” project, Santos’ Fairview operation in Queensland, was scrapped.
The [...]

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In Nigeria chronic electricity shortages are largely to blame for the loss of three million jobs and the closure of hundreds of factories in northern Nigeria’s commercial hub, local business leaders say.
“In the last 15 years, more than three million jobs have been directly and indirectly lost in Kano with the closure of more than [...]

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Coal for delivery in northwest Europe rose to a record on limited global supplies of the fuel and demand in countries such as India where new power stations are being built.
Domestic supplies of Indian coal lag behind demand and state-owned Coal India Ltd. is seeking mines in countries including Australia and Indonesia to secure supplies. [...]

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