The Pears Report: Energy pricing demands a response
When energy assets were being sold off, many politicians thought that people would blame the industry for any problems, not governments. Sorry guys. Everyone knows you write the rules and supposedly enforce them.
via The Pears Report: Energy pricing demands a response — RenewEconomy
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Tesla opens first Adelaide storeTesla is bringing scalable energy products and services including the award-winning Powerwall to customers with the opening of its first store in Adelaide at Westfield Marion.
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How lakes can generate electricityScientists develop new ways to harness energy from evaporation.
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A year since the SA blackout, who’s winning the high-wattage power play?It’s a year to the day since the entire state of South Australia was plunged into darkness. And what a year it’s been, for energy policy geeks and political tragics alike.
Aboriginal massacre sites uncovered in first forensic science study
~ ABC Kimberley By Erin Parke www.abc.net.au/news/erin-parke/4421154 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-01/forensic-science-study-seeks-truth-of-aboriginal-massacres/9001770
‘Cutting edge forensic science techniques have been used in a fresh examination of reported Aboriginal massacre sites in WA’s north, in an effort to prove alleged atrocities from 100 years ago.
‘Warning: This story contains the images of Aboriginal people who aredeceased.
‘A team of archaeologists and forensic scientists travelled to some of the most remote spots in WA
to examine bone fragments found at the sites, which have been mired in historical and political debate for decades.
‘Lead researcher Pam Smith said that while some of the results were inconclusive, the findings of the most advanced study of the alleged 1922 Sturt Massacre had backed up the oral histories of local Aboriginal elders. … ‘
GetUp! Releases new files dishing the dirt on Adani
~ Margaret Gleeson https://www.greenleft.org.au/glw-authors/margaret-gleeson, September 30, 2017
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/getup-releases-new-files-dishing-dirt-adani
‘GetUp! has just published an updated version of The Adani Files, which it released in February.
The Adani Files: New Dirt reveals the fraudulent activity of the mining giant, currently under investigation in India, where it is accused of a complex $298 million scam that cheated shareholders, tax authorities and Indian energy consumers.
‘Much of the material is from a special report by the Guardian published in August, which showed how Adani allegedly siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of borrowed money into offshore tax havens.
Details of the alleged ₨15 billion ($291 million) fraud are contained in an Indian customs intelligence notice obtained by the Guardian, excerpts of which were published on August 16.’
Adani mining giant faces financial fraud claims as it bids for Australian coal loan
Allegations by Indian customs of huge sums being siphoned off to tax havens
from projects are contained in legal documents but denied by company https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/16/adani-mining-giant-faces-financial-claims-as-it-bids-for-australian-coal-loan
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