Energy Efficiency

climate change, energy resources and the big picture: an Australian perspective on global issues

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Entries Tagged as 'environment'

Oil Shortage in America? They’re Awash in It

July 30th, 2010 · No Comments

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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Tags: corporations · environment · pollution · usa

Gulf of Mexico has sprung another leak

July 29th, 2010 · No Comments

A new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a mile-long slick after a tug boat struck an abandoned well off the Louisiana coast and a crew from the Deepwater Horizon clean-up operation was sent there, the spill in Barataria Bay is surrounded by wildlife-rich wetlands and is at least the third leak [...]

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Tags: environment · north america · pollution

Free Speech in USA Not So free Anymore

July 8th, 2010 · No Comments

America has been big on free press and paid for press (via PR firms) through film makers and the like promoting precision bombing in Iraq, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina; however, the back-lash of the carnage in both places and how the people were treated changed things. When the next hurricane hit (what was [...]

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Tags: censorship · environment · media · politics · pollution · usa

Princess Gillard ETS Policy to Cause De-throning?

June 29th, 2010 · No Comments

The no-not-so new Prime Minister has suggested placing a price on carbon as one of the goals of her government, but will re-labeling the ETS be more window dressing; one must woner who the new puppeteers are if Tanner is on the way out as well; and much as I hate to put shit on [...]

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Tags: australia · climate change · environment · politics

Julia Rudd – Gillard & ETS

June 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Have Australian’s been duped (again) with Julia Gillard as head honcha; whose side is corporate government … the unions who choose who we get to vote for or corporations that can and do influence the electorate by financing media articles or the populace? The answer is pretty simple, what the people belief or think or [...]

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Tags: australia · environment · politics