Energy Efficiency

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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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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International Maritime Organisation is the UN body that polices the world’s shipping and you may thinking thats a good thing; however, truth be known, that while the UN postures about climate change and mans contribution to global warming. Previously I wrote of a surplus of oil reserves being built up by various countries and that [...]

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Ross Gittins – the Herald’s Economics Editor – wrote an insightful article (19th Oct) in which he rightly asked ‘can the Rudd Government be trusted with our money; is it the big-spending, high-taxing Government the Opposition claims; is this Labor doing what it always does, spending too freely and racking up big deficits and debt’ [...]

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Emissions Trading Scheme is best described by the last word … scheme; looking in the dictionary, scheme is also a described as a plot; when someone is said to be scheming or plotting, it is in the negative connotation. It doesn’t matter where or of which political party or vested bureaucratic utterance, there is a [...]

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