Energy Efficiency

During an anti-uranium protest at the Beverley mine in South Australia’s far north-east a decade ago, police assulted and unlawfully detained eight protesters, a news cameraman and an 11 year old girl (who had capsicum spray used on her) by locking the group in a shipping container. The Supreme Court awarded more than $700,000 in [...]

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Geologist Chris Landau has called for a showing of the mudlogs; the schematic cross sectional drawing of the lithology (rock type) of the well that has been bored; so far, no one has seen them… BP keeps them hidden. http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/what-bp-isnt-saying/1185 Likewise, this important information was not included in BHP Billiton’s 4,600-page environmental impact statement for [...]

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Chief executive of Choice, Nick Stace said LG has made false or misleading environmental claims known as ‘greenwashing’ with regards to several of its fridges; he said ‘this fridge is both a potential danger to your food, your wallet and the environment. LG Electronics has agreed to pay affected customers $331 to cover the unexpected increase [...]

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Peter Cundall may be short in stature, but as the former host Gardener of the ABC’s Gardening Australia, he can spot rot, diseased and non-productive branches on most organisms. The 82-year-old gardening celebrity – arrested during a protest against Gunns’ pulp mill outside State Parliament last year – pleaded not guilty to the charge of [...]

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Professor Sharon Beder (a visiting professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong writes an article that underscores the myth of  ‘growth economy’. In a different tangent to my ‘value added’ products (where a company with an association with another company markets their products through another organisation to boost profit margins; i.e cardboard tubing manufacturer sells [...]

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