Showing posts with label Environment - Climate Change - Energy Sources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Environment - Climate Change - Energy Sources. Show all posts
Wednesday, 1 April 2015

Australia's decline in renewable energy investment

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The Clean Energy Council's diagram below shows the strength of the industry and its value to Australia in 2013 but with reports that in...
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Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Negative effects of wind turbine farms: where is the evidence ?

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The question of possible negative health effects of winds farms when located near human habitation has been consistently promoted by a sma...
Saturday, 9 February 2013

Carbon pollution and US coal exports - an unholy connection

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Of all the fossil fuels responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, coal remains one of the most prolific, polluting, preferred energy sou...
Saturday, 17 November 2012

Mining in the Arctic - the growing environmental challenge

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The Leiv Eiriksson sent to Greenland's Baffin Bay The constant reduction in ice coverage in the Arctic have not only opened up the...
Friday, 28 September 2012

Energy from the oceans - wave power

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Renewable energy drawn from the world's oceans offers another potential alternative to reduce reliance on coal fired generators and fos...
Thursday, 23 August 2012

Coal seam gas mining - the unmentioned risks

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Coal seam gas mining water pond When the risks of coal seam gas (CSG) mining are cited, often inadequately, the focus quite correctly i...
Saturday, 14 July 2012

Coal Seam Gas - concerns from rural communities

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Rural communities in Queensland and NSW, Australia continue to express their fears over the impacts, both existing and potential, of coal ...
Thursday, 12 July 2012

Coal for power - what more do you need ?

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Fossil fuel mining and consumption remains one of the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. An amusing parody of industry pro...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

National Agreement on Coal Seam Gas Mining

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The recent agreement between the Australian Government and State Governments in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Northern Territory ...
Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Coal seam gas - a case study - Pilliga Forest, Australia

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The risks and impact of coal seam gas mining can be amply demonstrated by looking at the example of the Pilliga Forest in NSW where th...
Friday, 18 May 2012

Lock the Gate - Community Attitudes to Coal Seam Gas

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Both the exploration and extraction of coal seam gas excites considerable reaction on local communities particularly farming townships and ...
Thursday, 3 May 2012

Coal Seam Gas Inquiry Report - NSW Parliament - May 2012

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Coal seam mining in Qld The NSW Parliament's Inquiry into Coal Seam Gas Mining in NSW released its' report this week and there ...
Monday, 30 April 2012

Coal Seam Gas and water impact

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Condomine River - water contamination has been detected at this site One of the key concerns with Coal Seam Gas (CSG) mining is the a...
Saturday, 21 April 2012

Renewable energy - can it power up ?

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Wind turbines have proven successful The central question facing the wider application of renewable energy sources has been the capacit...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Coal Seam Gas - to frack or not to frack ?

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New research from the United States reporting that a steep rise in earthquakes across the central US is likely to be man-made as a resu...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Energy growth adding to CO2 emissions

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         The most recemnt report from the International Energy Agency ( World Energy Outlook 2011 ), does not make for an optimistic ...