Millions of jobs in carbon cuts and green technologies
”The report shows regional areas, even those which produce coal and generate electricity will have more jobs if we take strong action to cut pollution, but only if we act now,”
Carbon scheme ‘will create millions of jobs’ The Age, TOM ARUP, May 19, 2010, BIG cuts to carbon emissions and heavy investment in green technologies will create 3.7 million jobs across Australia by 2030, economic modelling commissioned for unions and green groups shows. Continue reading
UK renewable energy feed in tariff now available for community
the financial support for small scale renewable energy generation is twofold, in that people producing green electricity receive a generation tariff (paid by an electricity company) for everything they generate plus an export tariff for everything they feed back to the grid.
(UK) How feed in tariffs could ‘democratise’ renewable energy generation, Engineer Live, 18 May 2010, Suddenly, the rewards for generating electricity from low carbon sources are within the reach of far more people than ever before. Continue reading
Tony Abbott – No to increased funding for renewable energy
Tony Abbott – Address in Reply, Budget 2010 “…..the Coalition would not proceed with the budget increase to the renewable energy future fund and will cut government advertising by 25 per cent. These savings will pay for the Coalition’s direct action on climate change policy,…”
More jobs with renewable energy than with Hazelwood brown coal power
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ents for Hazelwood can create up to 2500 construction jobs and 2300 ongoing jobs, many more than Hazelwood currently provides, though there would still be a need to support new job creation in t the Latrobe Valley.
Clean Energy Projects Could Replace Hazelwood Power Station By 2013 : Renewable Energy News, by Energy matters, 18 May, 2010, In a report released by Environment Victoria yesterday, the group says Hazelwood Power Station could be replaced with clean and renewable energy projects as soon as the end of 2012; and by doing so would slash Victoria’s greenhouse pollution by 12 percent. Continue reading
Renewable energy leaping ahead in China
China’s Push for Renewable Energy, donga.com[English donga] 18 May 2010, The popularity of renewable energy sources including wind, photovoltaic and biomass is growing dramatically in China. Beijing designated renewable energy as a strategic industry last year, and invested 34.6 billion U.S. dollars, twice as much as the U.S.Despite the global financial crisis, the renewable energy industry knows no recession. Continue reading
Martin Ferguson’s Solar Energy plan for failure
Ferguson’s department once again has diverted funds to his favoured fossil fools and a gladbag of solar generation novices….Let’s get off this flagship of fools before it sinks the hopes of achieving a large-scale transition to renewables.
Solar Flagship shortlist comes up short * Olga Galacho, Herald Sun * May 13, 2010 FOSSIL fuel pirates and other opportunists have commandeered Energy Minister Martin Ferguson’s Solar Flagship program. The short-listed bidders for a slice of the $1.5 billion booty, courtesy of the Federal Government, was buried in a press release issued on Budget night. Continue reading
Methinks the uranium corporations do protest too much
Australia’s media is awash with the anger of BHP Billiton and other uranium miners, (even weird little Cauldron Energy), about the government’s super profit resources tax. Their threat is to wind down uranium mining, leave Australia etc.
But uranium mining is winding down anyway. BHP Billiton’s Grat Big New Mine is far from happening, as Olympic Dam still producing about a quarter capacity, with a damaged main shaft.
Recent Nuclear Non Proliferation arrangements mean that countries can get nuclear fuel from old nuclear weapons (no uranium mining needed for that). And the famous Nuclear Resuscitation (sorry, did I mean Renaissance?) – is not really happening.
And – it’s rude to mention this – but just one nuclear mishap like the current oil mishaps, and nuclear power is dead in the water forever.
For solar technology, Australian govt backs nuclear company AREVA
short-listed for one of two projects to get substantial backing under the $1.5 billion solar flagships program….none of the big name US and Spanish proponents of the new generation solar tower technologies, such as BritghSource, e-Solar and Cobra, made the short-list.
The giant backing Australian solar, Giles Parkinson | Business Spectator, 12 May 2010, The French nuclear giant Areva might have made one of the deals of the year when it snapped up Ausra, the solar thermal energy company founded by Australian researcher David Mills. Continue reading
Resuscitation of nuclear industry is losing momentum
(USA) Some States Push For New Nuclear Reactors, With Little Success | SolveClimate.com, by Dave Levitan – May 5th, 2010 “…..Stalled Momentum
Many other states do not have moratoria in place —only about 12 do—but even those that have the legal greenlight are seeing the nuclear momentum get held up recently. Continue reading
In California, Areva sneaking nuclear in under the cover of ‘clean’ and solar energy
AREVA, France’s state-owned nuclear company is aggressively pursuing its world-wide business empire. Despite the recent revelations of the degradation AREVA has caused in Niger, AREVA claims this image of being a good global citizen. AREVA aso claims that nuclear is “clean”, and “carbon free ” ( forget the carbon polluting fuel and waste disposal cycle)
AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group Move Closer to Clean Energy Park Today AREVA and the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group announced another important step toward building the nation’s most advanced Clean Energy Park to region near Fresno, California. Continue reading
Carbon tax looking like the best Climate Change plan for Australian govt
Anxious Labor MPs push carbon tax * Patricia Karvelas, Dennis Shanahan : The Australian * May 05, 2010 WORRIED Labor MPs plan to ask Kevin Rudd to embrace a carbon tax as Labor’s climate change policy, to fill the vacuum left by his contentious shelving of the emissions trading scheme.After being bombarded by outraged younger voters in their electorates, five Labor MPs have told The Australian the government’s current position on climate change is untenable and unsellable to the electorate.The admissions come as ministers concede the Rudd government failed to explain, or properly promote, its carbon pollution reduction scheme.
Non Profit organisations funding decentralised renewable energy
“If we can deliver energy on site, whether it’s a school, college or small town, all that infrastructure is already in place. We just have to bring in the actual equipment. We don’t have to build tens of millions of lines,”
(USA) MountainNonprofits Find Ways To Pay For Renewable Energy, Colorado Business News, CATHERINE TSAI, Associated Press WriterDENVER (AP) May 2, 2010― The Upper Scioto Valley School District in Ohio, battered by a slowdown at a nearby Ford Motor Co. plant, wanted to explore alternative energy when it developed a plan to fix its budget and create jobs. Continue reading
Liberal Party stalling Australia’s Renewable Energy Policy
Coalition puts a spanner in the renewable works, Sydney Morning Herald LENORE TAYLOR May 1, 2010 THE future of Australia’s only remaining incentive to invest in renewable energy is under a cloud after the Coalition raised concerns about proposed government amendments to the 20 per cent renewable energy target. Continue reading
Victoria’s community owned Hepburn Wind shows the way to renewable energy
Small players spinning wheels of renewable energy, Sydney Morning Herald, CHRIS ZAPPONE, April 28, 2010 Although the prospects of a national emissions trading scheme appear to have receded further over the horizon, one community is determined to make renewable energy a reality. At least locally.Community-owned Hepburn Wind today completed a contract for the delivery of two 2 megawatt wind turbines to be installed at Leonards Hill, south of Daylesford in central Victoria.The locally operated enterprise, billed as the first of its kind in Australia, is expected to supply almost all of Daylesford’s and Hepburn Shire’s electricity needs – enough for 2300 homes by the beginning of next year. Hepburn wind farm believed to be the first in Australia | Energy
Australia should not become just the land of quarries and waste dumops
We will all pay for that when the global miners are gone – or we won’t be able to afford to pay for a clean-up at all and just leave the holes in the ground.
Curse of The Resource Rich may Befall Us, Sydney Morning Herald, MARTIN FEIL, April 30, 2010
The government and the media generally promote Australia’s resources boom as a blessing for the economy in difficult global times. Our land seems to be regarded as a magic pudding that will never stop feeding our growing population. All we have to do is dig. Continue reading
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