91% of Australians want strong government policy for renewable energy
The sheer number of people we spoke to eclipsed any of the focus groups or randomised polls that are traditionally used to gauge the public mood.
The support we found for renewable energy was overwhelming. The people we spoke to support renewable energy and they want to see politicians get on with the job of bringing it online.
The real public opinion on renewable energy, The Drum, Andrew Bray, 29 June 11 “…….. to test the case, the 100% Renewable Energy campaign decided to bypass the media and get it straight from the horse’s mouth. We wanted to hear directly from our communities what they thought about renewable energy.
From February to May of this year, community groups associated with the campaign conducted over 14,000 face-to-face conversations at people’s doors, in their lounge rooms, at markets and community events and on the sidelines of football matches. Conversations took place from Bega to Bunbury and Cairns to Hobart. Continue reading
Call to governments for a nuclear-free Asia Pacific
Nuclear power has no part in building a climate-friendly and sustainable future.
A large and growing number of scientific studies have detailed the wide range of energy supply and energy efficiency options that can be deployed to meet energy demand while sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions…..
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific is calling for Government‘s in our region like Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Australia to transition into nuclear free societies.
Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific region will pursue a nuclear free world as a region and in our individual countries.
Nuclear Free Asia, The Hankyorah, 30 June 11, Activists from 15 countries participating in the Friends of the Earth Asia Pacific meeting held at the Haja Center in Seoul announce a declaration for Nuclear Free Future, June 30.
The statement as follows: Overcoming Fukushima’s Nuclear Crisis – Creating Nuclear Power Free Asia Pacific region
Several months after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we are beginning to get a sense of the likely long-term impacts. Continue reading
Australia missing out on renewable energy boom
A clean energy finance corporation is needed as part of the carbon pricing package to unlock the clean energy boom in Australia.Support for a clean energy finance corporation has come from the largest investors in Australia, such as the peak bodies in the super funds industry. Investors are ready to play their part.
Renewable boom is leaving us stumbling, The Canberra Times, BY SIMON O’CONNOR, 29 Jun, 2011 “……. Today, there is a global race to take advantage of the boom in renewable energy and countries like China, South Korea, Germany and the US are leaving us for dead. Often using technologies that were developed here.
We’re pretending not to notice as another clean energy technology manufacturer shuts up shop and heads offshore because Australia doesn’t have the right support to attract the investment needed.
Early this month, an Adelaide solar cell manufacturer closed its doors and relocated to the US after deciding an Australian-based operation wasn’t viable. After receiving $8million in state and federal research and development grants to develop super-slim solar panels pioneered at the Australian National University in Canberra, Origin Solar is heading to Idaho, taking with it the knowledge, the investment and the potential for a stack of new jobs. Continue reading
Nuclear power fading, with energy future in gas and renewables
Analysis: Gas, renewables to be future energy sources of choice, By Henning Gloystein and Barbara Lewis, LONDON Jul 1, 2011 (Reuters) – Natural gas will fast become the fossil fuel of choice to complement renewable energy for the foreseeable future, after long being regarded as merely a step on the way to a greener energy mix.
Especially in electricity generation, natural gas has so far stood in competition with coal-fired and nuclear production.
But coal’s high carbon emission levels have reduced its market allure, while the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima plant following an earthquake in March has put a serious dent in the prospects for global nuclear power generation…..http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/01/us-gas-future-idUSTRE7603BN20110701
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