Energy Efficiency

Indian government officials say workers at a nuclear power plant in the country’s south have been treated for poisoning after drinking water was deliberately spiked with radiation. Routine tests showed 55 employees from the plant in Kaiga in the state of Karnataka had increased levels of the radioactive element tritium, which is used in nuclear [...]

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It’s pretty common knowledge that many board members are elected not so much for real business accumen but because of their political connections. Queensland has seen a spate of under-performers who obtained office (in State politics), continued their lack-lustre operand and subsequently had the ‘expertise’ to act as a go between for corporate and government [...]

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Kristen Lyons (Senior Lecturer in the School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences at Griffith University’s Nathan campus) is a Lighthouse in the dark seas of corporate greed, where the needs and aspiration of the community are ignored for short term profits. “Australians are being left in the dark as government turns a blind eye to [...]

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This is an article I wrote in 2007. Was the joint press release (Aug 13th) by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie and Lindy Nelson-Carr saying ‘change a light bulb, save money and help save the Planet’ really about the environment or the Premier wishing to seen in a good light? Launching the Change a Light Bulb [...]

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The world population is around 6,500,000,000; since late 2003, the WHO has confirmed 387 human cases of H5N1 also known as avian influenza or Bird Flu, which resulted in a total 245 deaths. Tamiflu was developed to protect people against bird flu.  The Australian Government says it’s ordered 10 million doses of a yet to [...]

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