Energy Efficiency

When the world’s largest mining boss Marius Kloppers warns Australia should look beyond coal and towards other energy sources, you have to wonder whether its spin or otherwise.  According to the BHP Billiton CEO, the Australian economy will suffer if it does not significantly reduce its carbon emissions in anticipation of a global carbon price [...]

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By Mason Inman – for National Geographic News – Published September 8, 2010 This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues; for more, visit The Great Energy Challenge. No matter how bad coal might be for the planet, the conventional wisdom is that there is so much of it underground that [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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