Renowned film-maker David Bradbury will document anti-uranium protest at Olympic Dam
David Bradbury is traveling to Roxby with a small camera crew to document the actions at Olympic Dam as part of Lizard’s Revenge. He is driving down (ie. heading south) and is aware of the roadblocks the state is putting in place, but is hoping to make it down by today or tomorrow. His trip and the festival can be followed on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-Bradbury/349981725057349
BHP Billiton who own the mine and run it ‘like Nazi Germany’; so one of the workers told me three years ago when I was there filming after he told me not so politely to put my camera away and ‘f- off’. The miners and the huge multi national mining giant don’t like their right to earn big money and profits ripping out the Heart of Australia and polluting the precious water supply of future generations. Continue reading
Carbon tax a win for Bioenergy, Wave and Wind energy producers
AUDIO Carbon tax winners: clean energy producers http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2012/s3540351.htm ABC Radio The World Today, 6 July 12, “….entrepreneurs in the renewable energy sector are excited by what the carbon price will bring. Those already in the solar, wind and hydro power field are confident about the commercial future of their clean energy systems in the new low-carbon economy…… Continue reading
On July 1 Australia joins international effort to address global warming
[Tony Abbott has] claimed regions will disappear, Whyalla will collapse. The population in Whyalla’s increasing and 
there’s a lot of investment there. I just think a lot of the claims that have been made from Sunday will be able to be tested against reality and I think people will think, “Well, you know, can we really believe what Tony Abbott’s on about?”
VIDEO Combet joins Lateline http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3535240.htm 28 June 12,
“……….[The carbon tax is] meant to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in our economy over time because it’s important for Australia to play its part in international efforts to tackle climate change. We’re part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, an advanced economy like ours has to play its fair part, we’re one of the top 20 greenhouse gas emitters internationally and we’re the highest per capita emitter amongst the developed economies. So, we have to play our role and the intention here is to put a price tag on pollution so that there’s an incentive to cut greenhouse gas emissions….
what we’re implementing of course is an emissions trading scheme. I know we’ve discussed this previously, but when it does migrate to a flexible price in 2015, the government of the day will be setting caps so we can achieve a targeted emissions reduction.
Essentially what that means is the number of permits to emit greenhouse gas will be limited and cut each year so that we can achieve a specific emissions reduction target by 2020. So it will be effective, but of course we’re part of the international community. Other countries are doing similar things and a tonne of greenhouse gas emissions cut overseas or in Australia is – it doesn’t matter whether it’s here or overseas, as long as there’s greenhouse gas emissions cut and that’s why linking carbon markets is important…… Continue reading
Fukushima crisis, real risk of another, and worse nuclear disaster
VIDEO Experts warn of another disaster awaiting at Fukushima http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2012/s3532725.htm Australian Broadcasting Corporation 7.30 report Broadcast: 25/06/2012 Reporter: Mark Willacy Japanese and US nuclear experts warn that another earthquake hitting Fukushima could spark a disaster worse than Chernobyl. Continue reading
VIDEO – Elderly Aboriginal landowners must wait for legal case about nuclear waste dump for their land
Muckaty residents were targeted because of their isolation.
VIDEO Muckaty nuclear waste case adjourned http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1662896/Muckaty-nuclear-waste-case-adjourned 25 JUN 2012, Lawyers for the traditional land owners at Muckaty in the Northern Territory fear some community members may die before court proceedings against a proposed nuclear waste facility are heard.
The Federal Court has decided to adjourn the case against the site until the end of the year. Continue reading
Latest renewable energy news video
Energy Matters Video News – Episode 68 – June 13, 2012, by Energy Matters, Presented by Energy Matters team member Virginia, we take a look at some of the stories from Australia and around the world recently added to ou rrenewable energy news section.
Virginia reports on REC enhancing performance of its award-winning Peak Energy solar panels, one of the tricks and traps when buying solar, renewables accounting for half of all new power generation globally and solar panels being developed to work underwater….. http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3250
Audio and Video: Northern Territory rallies against nuclear waste dump plan
Audio from rally in Tennant Creek marking five years since Muckaty nomination for nuclear waste dump http:/ beyondnuclearinitiative.com/2012/05/25/audio-from-rally-in-tennant-creek-marking-five-years-since-muckaty-nomination/
25 May 12: “A rally and march were held today in Tennant Creek (Friday 25) to mark five years since the Northern Land Council voted to nominate Muckay as a potential site for a national nuclear waste dump.
120-150 people attended the rally and speakers included Muckaty Traditional Owners, Minister Gerry McCarthy (NTG), Barkly Shire President Barb Shaw, Larrakia activist Donna Jackson and Maurice Blackburn lawyer Lizzie O’Shea.
The march went from Peko Park to outside the Northern Land Council office where Traditional Owners spoke about the lack of consultation by the NLC before the Muckaty site was nominated.”
Muckaty Gathering 25 May 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1J9q-OeEO4 25 May 12: “Alice Springs residents gather in support of
the Muckaty Traditional Owners and all peoples opposing the Nuclear Waste Dump in the Northern Territory of Australia.”
Video – community owned solar farm – and more renewable energy news
http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3209 Energy Matters Video News – Episode 67 – May 16, 2012, Presented by Energy Matters team member Virginia, we take a look at some of the stories from Australia and around the world recently added to our renewable energy news section.
Virginia reports on REC’s 5 millionth solar panel, Victoria’s Yarra Climate Action Now pursuing a community-owned solar farm and solar soon to be an even better deal for small businesses in Australia…..
Toro Energy uranium miner Alternative Annual Report 2012
Toro Energy Alternative Annual Report 2012, by Jim Green, Dave Sweeney, Mia Pepper, 14 May 12, This Alternative Annual Report has been compiled in the public interest to highlight the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of Toro Energy projects. http://torowatch.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/toro-report2.pdf
The interview that Australia’s ABC left out of its climate change documentary
Naomi Oreskes deconstructs Nick Minchin’s climate denial Apr 23, 2012 by SkepticalScienceNaomi Oreskes explains with great clarity the driving force behind climate denial – aversion to the political and economic implications of climate change leading to a rejection of the science. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZQNiDIBxO4
Christine Milne, new leader of Australian Greens, sets new direction
VIDEO Bright Green future as Milne takes reins http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-14/bright-green-future-as-milne-takes-reins/3950010 Greens leader Christine Milne says her party has a bright future and is bigger than its outgoing leader Bob Brown. Saturday marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Greens, after Friday’s surprise resignation of the party’s founder and leader Bob Brown. Senator Milne has taken over as party leader and Lower House MP Adam Bandt will take over as deputy leader.
AUDIO Greens to take on economic issues under new leader http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-14/greens-to-take-on-economic-issues-under-new-leader/3950112
Murdoch press ‘informs’ public opinion on climate change
negative articles about the proposed carbon emissions tax in Murdoch’s newspapers outweighed positive ones
82 percent to 18 percent.
AUDIO How Murdoch’s Aussie Papers Cover Climate Change, NPR News by DAVID 
FOLKENFLIK April 6, 2012 “…..[journalist Wendy] Bacon delved into her own harvest: the results of a case study about how the country’s newspapers handled a pressing and contentious issue.
Bacon, a professor of journalism at the University of Technology in Sydney, commissioned researchers and graduate students to examine six months’ worth of every article, feature piece, editorial and columns in 10 leading Australian papers on a proposal by the governing Labor Party to tax carbon emissions.
“What our study showed is that the majority of Australians are not getting a balanced or diverse view on a policy which was designed — at least in a small way — to tackle this problem,” Bacon said.
Seven of the 10 papers studied were part of News Corp.’s Australian newspaper arm, News Limited. The overwhelming majority of newspapers sold in the country are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s company. With such dominance of the press, the Murdoch papers draw careful scrutiny of how they cover sensitive issues. Continue reading
Natalie Wasley on Aboriginals, radioactive wastes, uranium mining at Olympic Dam, Ranger and Beverley
http://ifyoulovethisplanet.org/?p=5732#more-5732 30 March 12, This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s 2010 interview with Australian Natalie Wasley, coordinator of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative based at the Arid Lands Environment Center in the Northern Territory of Australia. Wasley has travelled extensively over the last 10 years, meeting with communities in Australia and overseas who have been impacted by every stage of the nuclear chain, from uranium exploration and mining through to nuclear weapons. The current focus of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative project is working with Aboriginal Traditional Owners who are opposed to the Australian federal government plan to force a radioactive waste dump on their traditional country….
Video solar energy news, coal compensation
Energy Matters Video News – Episode 63 – April 4, 2012, by Energy Matters This week, Virginia reports on price wars in Australia’s solar sector, Energy Matters becoming Australia’s first accredited REC solar professional, greening solar panel production and Victorian coal fired power stations receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon tax ‘compensation’…. http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=3146
AUDIO: interview with Matthew Benns, about his book Dirty Money
“85% of Australia’s mineral industry is foreign owned”
AUDIO Dirty Money – Matthew Benns, http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2011/11/story-2-8.html?site=brisbane&program=612_evenings interview by by Peter Gooch We’re all aware of the mining activity going on in Queensland, but what about the dirty side of mining? Matthew Benns, author of ‘The Men Who Killed Qantas’, has a new book out called ‘Dirty Money’ in which he outlines what he claims is the true cost of Australia’s mining boom. Here Matthew Benns begins by talking about who the really big mining companies are in this country.
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