Energy Efficiency

The State Government today announced a plan to attract private sector investment to deliver two new major projects and further boost the growing coal industry. Premer Anna Bligh said Queensland Treasury had been tasked with investigating investment opportunities to fund the Connors River Dam and proposed Multi-Cargo Facility at Abbot Point. A report examining funding [...]

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Ok Tedi is the well known environmental disaster that took place in what was once part of Australian territory until the Australian Government ‘gave’ Papua New Guinea back to the true owners (unlike Irian Jaya still suffering genocide, pillage and ransacking by Indonesia). Will Yeelirie in Western Australia be a repeat of Ok Tedi? Those [...]

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After running roughshod over all and sundry to address the requirements of various corporations and helped keep him in power while lining his pockets, using the Police force to smash peaceful protests and demolishing heritage listed buildings, even the more caring would find it difficult to empathise with Lady Flo Bjelke-Petersen as she sits next [...]

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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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Chile’s worst drought in five decades and power rationing from South Africa to China mean the price of aluminium, gold, copper and platinum will keep climbing as the lights go out in the world’s biggest mines. Those governments are being forced to choose whether to reduce power to their 1.4 billion residents or curtail energy [...]

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