Australia will keep its ban on uranium sales to India
Overturning the ban would reward India’s nuclear proliferation and undermine the NPT, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Australia Chair Tilman Ruff said.
“Selling uranium to India runs counter to Australia’s and global security interests, and would undermine Australia’s stated support for achieving a world without nuclear weapons,” he said..
No change in ban on uranium sales to India, Sydney Morning Herald, Adam Gartrell, January 19, 2011 – The federal government has told India it won’t lift its ban on uranium sales to the South Asian giant. Continue reading
WA is ideal for small scale Concentrated Solar Power, with energy storage
small scale parabolic dish forms of CSP can provide a local, renewable alternative to non-renewable energy sources transmitted from outside the area…..In a CSP based facility, heat can also be stored for electricity generation after dark and on days when the sun doesn’t shine by using a heat storage system such as a molten salt battery.
Western Australia’s Concentrated Solar Power Potential Renewable Energy News :by Energy Matters. 18 Jan 2011, Researchers from the University of Western Australia say Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies have excellent potential to generate clean, renewable electricity for communities and mining operations throughout the state’s vast Wheatbelt. Continue reading
Wet weather, low grade ore, means low output for Ranger uranium mine
“We had lower grade because of access to the pit and because of the longer wet season and geological issues,”….”When we had access to the bottom of the pit, it, the grade level, was not as we were expecting,
Shortfall the pits NT News NICK CALACOURAS | January 19th, 2011 ENERGY Resources Australia was forced to buy more than 600 tonnes of uranium to meet commitments after the Ranger mine produced a shortfall of ore. Continue reading
Judge rules for Aboriginal landowners against mining company
`The native title in the land of the traditional owners in preventing mining are significant and genuine,” he said…. ‘the Kokatha people’s genuine, longstanding and consistently voiced opposition to mining weighed against approval.’
SA judge’s blow to Straits, Argonaut | Perth Now, 17 Jan 2011, A SOUTH Australian court has denied Straits Resources and its joint venture partner Argonaut Resources the rights to explore a region around Lake Torrens. Continue reading
Extreme weather? – some basic climate science
Why is the ocean warmer than ever? Because the extra carbon dioxide we have put into the atmosphere has trapped outgoing heat radiation and warmed the earth, notably the oceans……Even the cold spells in the northern hemisphere are being driven by stronger weather patterns in the Arctic which, while freezing the land of the climate deniers, are melting more and more ice in the Arctic
Humans add heat to La Nina cycles, The Age, Keith Burrows, January 18, 2011“………some basic climate science. Of course the floods are a consequence of an exceptionally strong La Nina. But why is this La Nina exceptionally strong? The El Nino-La Nina cycles are driven by heat stored in the ocean and the oceans are warmer than ever. Continue reading
Australia’s Parliament House going solar
Solar power plan for Parliament House, Canberra Times, BY DANIELLE CRONIN, 17 Jan, 2011 Solar panels will be installed on Parliament House’s roof as part of an effort to find long-term solutions to the building’s energy needs, according to a senior official.Parliament’s cooling and heating systems were 22 years old and would need to be replaced in a few years, Department of Parliamentary Services secretary Alan Thompson said.At the same time, the department was looking at alternative energy sources such as wind and solar…..Solar power plan for Parliament House – Local News – News – General – The Canberra Times
Australia’s new Consitutional Committee – for uranium miners more than for Aborigines?
Noel Pearson,……. increasing his personal wealth through deals with mining companies and rightwing politicians.….. It would also be a very good idea for Marcia Langton and Pat Dodson to inform the Aboriginal people of the purpose and outcomes of their private meeting with Queen Elizabeth II in London 1999. This was a meeting, I understand, organized by the hierarchy of Rio Tinto. How can we place or have any trust in these sorts of people?……
Appalled at the people on the constitutional committee. Indymedia Australia, Commentary by Michael Anderson, last survivor of the four founders of the Aboriginal Embassy and leader of the Euahlayi Nation. Goodooga, northwest NSW, 18 January 2011
I am appalled at the announcement of the people who are to sit on this farcical constitutional committee to consider a proposal for the recognition of Aboriginal people in the Australian constitution… Continue reading
World’s fastest solar-powered car designed by Australian students
Australian students design ‘world’s fastest solar car’ – The Economic Times, 12 Jan, 2011, MELBOURNE: Australian students claim to have designed the world’s fastest solar car which has smashed a Guinness World Record by travelling at a speed of 88 kmph.The car, designed by the University of New South Wales students, smashed the world solar car speed record at the HMAS Albatross navy base airstrip in Nowra. The speed was faster than the previous record of 79 kmph…..Australian students design ‘world’s fastest solar car’ – The Economic Times
Australia’s floods are the result of warmer seas
“Sea surface temperatures across the north and northwest had been the “highest on record by some margin, which is favourable for heavy rainfall, since August-September”….The current La Nina is forecast to last into autumn.
Warm seas fuelling deluges across nation Brendan O’Keefe The Australian *January 15, 2011 RECORD warm seas across the Top End and off the northwest coast of Western Australian have fuelled this week’s deluge, experts say. Continue reading
Solar power the answer for regional Western Australia
Solar gives good electricity, Science Alert, 14 January 2011 A study by researchers from The University of Western Australia has confirmed the potential for Concentrated Solar Power to generate electricity for communities and mining interests across the Wheatbelt. Continue reading
Nuclear power, an obsolete industry that is winding down
There are nine fewer nuclear power stations operating
worldwide today than there were in 2002. There are 33 fewer nuclear power stations in Europe now than there were in 1989. The US has not built one in 36 years and the Japanese have virtually stopped building them.
Young Australian comments on floods and climate change
But we need to start talking about what climate change actually looks like – and we don’t need to look much further than Queensland.
Pressure on Australia to sell uranium to India, and to disregard environmental issues in FTA
Australia may rethink its the ban [on uranium sales to India] in view of the powerful endorsement by leading members of the Nuclear Suppliers Group, including the US, France and Russia,……The two sides have agreed to accept the feasibility report on the proposed FTA. India is understood to have persuaded Australia to to keep extraneous issues like environment, labour and government procurement out of ambit of the FTA.
Krishna to go to Australia, uranium sale, FTA on agenda, Sify News, New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) India will press Australia to review its ban on the sale of uranium to New Delhi and discuss the contours of a free trade area (FTA) pact when External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna goes to Melbourne on a two-day visit next week. Continue reading
Australia ratifies IRENA’s renewable energy Treaty
51 nations have ratified IRENA’s renewable energy Treaty. Australia did so on January 11 this year.
Clinton Lauds IRENA In Abu Dhabi, Renewable Energy News : by Energy Mattersm 24 Jan 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has applauded the efforts of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and their impact on addressing climate change, supporting sustainable technology, and combating “energy poverty” in the third world…. Continue reading
Britain seeks Australia’s support for its Trident nuclear missile buildup
….He also defended Britain’s nuclear arsenal….Dr Fox said a strong partnership with Australia had to be based not on sentiment ”but hard-headed pragmatism”.
British defence chief visits to rebuild ties, The Age, Daniel Flitton, January 14, 2011 “….. major security talks in Australia. Dr Fox will join Foreign Secretary William Hague in Sydney next week Continue reading
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