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Weather records tumble: our future is at stake
evaporation, and more water vapour carried in the air. This can contribute to drier conditions over land, ... exacerbating droughts. It also can increase the amount of rain or snow when that extra water vapour does ... choose to cut climate change programs like Solar Flagships, energy efficiency and the solar hot water ...
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Mining boom myths busted, but book leaves questions unanswered
are given a good mention. Cleary wonders about the effects of climate change on water availability. He ... questions whether CSG developments should be able to threaten agricultural water supply given the threat of ... water shortages. But he leaves untouched the issue of these fossil fuels causing climate change. ...
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Rudd's renewable policy not working
under federal government legislation, RECs are also given to solar hot water and heat pump installations ... extra certificates "phantom RECs". Garner told GLW that "solar hot water is not adding ... (RET), along with solar hot water and heat pump installations. This would benefit wind power he said, the ...
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What鈥檚 behind the Finkel Review on energy security?
unconventional gas ignores observed evidence of the damage it inflicts on our food-producing land and local water ...
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Socialists to oppose privatisation in Tas election
calling for public ownership of all essential services. It is calling for scrapping water and sewerage ...
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Unemployed metalworkers protest for jobs
construction聽multinational ACS Group. The project is a salt reduction plant for recycled water. 聽 Victorian company ...
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Tennis funded, solar power left hanging
due to the proliferation of home solar hot water heaters taking up certificates. Portland based ...
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Energy freedom on or off the grid?
services: space heating, water heating and cooking. Having lots of people transfer from using fossil-powered ... water heating, as well). Some common house types, such as a brick-veneer concrete slab home in ...
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BHP's rainforest-swallowing coal venture
a negative impact, causing land clearing, water contamination from transport of the coal on rivers, and ... effects of ecological disasters, destruction of forests and degradation of land, water and rivers ...
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Gas industry seeks a lifeline as opposition mounts
Santos has faced widespread condemnation over water contamination and spills in its Pilliga forest gas ... highly toxic BTEX chemicals were discovered in waste water onsite. On March 6, three weeks before the NSW ...
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People鈥檚 climate summit challenges Copenhagen, Cancun
climate change. It is facing water shortages as its glaciers disappear. Neighbouring Peru has suffered ... nations). Bolivia does not even have safe, drinkable tap water yet. If Australia ended coal and gas exports, ...
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Natural gas and the climate movement
emissions by 12% annually, as well as freeing up 27 billion litres of water for other uses.鈥 Two possible ... 鈥渂ack-up/booster for solar hot water, solar thermal power and wind power鈥. He said: 鈥淭he highest priority must be ...
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Principled environmental policy
global warming and resource shortages (oil, water, fisheries) become key policy issues for governments, ... analytical gauntlet: tradeable fishing rights, water trading, salinity trading and offsets, and mitigation ...
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Australia鈥檚 鈥榞as shortage鈥 is a fiction
they can afford to pay to replace hot water, heating and cooking appliances. Transition to renewables ...
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Vic gov鈥檛 on 鈥榥aptime鈥 as mine fire poisons Morwell
section of mine that is now burning. Coal seams were left exposed, vulnerable to fire, and the water pipes ... completely (such as when under water attack), it is worse, and pollutants include known carcinogens such as ... keep a balance with the volume of water used on the fire, otherwise 鈥渨e could see collapse, we could ...
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Qantas sackings add to Geelong's jobs disaster
confirmed they are laying off staff include Target, Blue Circle, Barwon Water and Ford. Local CSIRO jobs are ...
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GDF Suez refuses to pay Hazelwood coalmine fire bill
Earthworker cooperative, who wish to establish a solar hot water factory there. Melbourne University ...
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Climate change: the case for immediate action
Himalayas depend on melt water in rivers for their agriculture. Australia is facing bad drought, but if the ... bottled water, climate friendly images and products reassure us that it is okay to consume as never ...
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Return of 鈥榚xtremist鈥 construction secret police
arrangements were watered down over the past few years and the unlawful and inappropriate union conduct of the ...
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Why the left should support Sea Shepherd's anti-whaling campaign
Venezuela's territorial waters. That law has the double effect of empowering small-scale and subsistence ...
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Summit calls for climate debt payment
involves the rich nations helping poor nations deal with the effects of climate change, such as water and ...
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Australia must 'walk its talk' on climate
salt water bubbles through the ground at high tide, and the soil is too salty to grow their staple crop ...
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Hazelwood closure: no just transition without a plan
be spent directly in Latrobe Valley, not neighbouring shires. 鈥淵ou pour the water into the teacup and ...
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'Citizen scientists' force VicForests to halt logging
Imperium coupe prior to the completion of a DELWP [Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning] ...
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Climate emergency: birth of a new protest movement
emergency action from September 22 and the organisers have linked up with an existing water ...