Energy Efficiency

Over the last 20 years or so, various bureaucrats under different federal governments have surveyed and even drilled for oil on the Great Barrier Reef; one could suggest that the data – relevant only to oil companies – could form part of a ‘dowry’ to oil companies when said public servant/s jump ship for a better paying [...]

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BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influence the work of scientists supported by the fund, [...]

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Chinese officials have warned of a severe threat to wildlife from one of the country’s worst reported oil spills as an army of volunteers was dispatched to beaches to try to head off the black tides. At least one man has drowned in crude during the clean-up operation, which has expanded as the area of [...]

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Well, if it’s good enough for the government to guarantee the performance of banks – who largely caused the GFC – then why not a Policy to introduce a $5 billion loan guarantee scheme that would complement their target of a zero carbon economy? The Greens released the policy at the launch of their Tasmanian federal [...]

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The global financial crisis – created by the USA – has pretty much bankrupted all the States, causing massive job losses in public works sector and the like; also, long ignored aging infrastructure is starting to collapse; however, emergency workers have all but been laid off, so when a natural or man-made / caused catastrophe [...]

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