Shareholders protesting BHP’s uranium mining
BHP chief takes on shareholder activists ABC Radio PM Annie Guest reported this story on November 26, 2009
The protestors outside and shareholder activists inside raised concerns about uranium mining and storage……..PROTESTOR: Mr Argus… that would be millions of tonnes of radioactive waste… Continue reading
Modest assistance towards clean energy
Australia’s “Green Start” For Low Income Households Renewable Energy News 26 Nov 09 Environment Minister Peter Garrett yesterday provided details of a new $130 million initiative called Green Start. Continue reading
Review – anti-uranium Alice Springs, nuclear lobbying
Review – Australia:Alice Springs doctors protesting against uranium mining. While Australia burns Labor and Liberal squabble over a pretty much irrelevant ETS scheme.. Aborigines get back Maralinga, but land still radioactive. Regional solar and wind projects go ahead, despite Australian government prioritising “clean” coal
International : Nuclear lobby pushing hard for nuclear inclusion at Copenhagen. UK, USA and China govts formally aiming to offer nuclear power to countries as (?somehow) an opposite to nuclear weapons. AREVA’s Finland and French new reactor designs found to be unsafe. From worldwide, people organising to converge on Copenhagen on December 12. – the past week
Solar energy shining in Queensland and Victoria
Solar farm thrives in heat ABC News By Chrissy Arthur Nov 20, 2009 The extreme heat in outback Queensland is proving ideal for the state’s first solar power station. Continue reading
Nuclear power uneconomic for Australia
Peak Energy: Crikey’s Bernard Keane has the next installment of his series on why nuclear power is unlikely to be seen in Australia – 20 Nov 09
To those who say “beaudy nuke”: why should taxpayers suffer? What would it cost Australia to go nuclear? Good question. Excellent question, in fact, because no one really knows. Continue reading
Climate sceptic rails against “irrational” anti-nuclear movement
Climate change plan coul d”ruin Australia” news.com au AAP November 19, 2009 AUSTRALIA will go broke and become the laughing stock of the world if politicians ignore basic science on climate change, a leading global warming sceptic…..Adelaide University professor of mining geology, Ian Plimer, saidProf Plimer’s comments came as he delivered the annual Essington Lewis Memporial Lecture honour of a former chief executive and chairman of BHP. He is one of Australia’s most outspoken climate change sceptics and rejects the suggestion that increased levels of carbon dioxide are responsible for global warming. Continue reading
Money into ‘clean coal’ better spent on renewables
Clean coal: miracle or furphy? 17 November 2009 SBS World News Technology ‘will be ready too late’ Mark Diesendorf, from the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales, says clean coal won’t be commercially available before the early 2020s. Continue reading
Solar energy to pay off for homes and farms
New solar scheme to shine on energy-efficient households THE LAND NICOLA BELL16 Nov, 2009 FARMS and households generating their own renewable energy Continue reading
Regional movement to lobby for green energy
New group to promote regional green energy ABC News Central Victoria 14 Nov 09 Energy businesses and government representatives will form a national peak body to promote regional green energy projects. Continue reading
Solar power to the grid – NSW’s gross feed-in -tariiff
NSW to go gross with solar The Northern Rivers Echo by Andy Parks 12th November 2009 Environmental and industry groups have welcomed the announcement by the NSW Government that they will introduce a gross feed in tariff for renewable energy systems Continue reading
New ways for renewable energy for power grid
Renewable energy plans for power grid ABC Newcastle 14 Nov 09 Scientists at a renewable energy integration facility in Newcastle are working on new techniques aimed at integrating renewable energy into the state’s power grid. Continue reading
Smart grid will enable small and large renewable power sources
The CSIRO has launched a new research centre aimed at helping transform Australian electricity networks and lower greenhouse gas emissions.
The Renewable Energy Integration Facility based in Newcastle, NSW, will develop grid management technologies that will allow greater penetration of renewable, low-emission energy resources into electricity networks. The facility will also be used to develop automatic fault detection techniques to help improve electricity supply reliability and reduce blackouts, according to the CSIRO…………..
“The facility demonstrates how electricity networks will work in the future where the electricity supply mix will include greater numbers of small power sources in conjunction with large, centralised power sources.”CSIRO scientist, Dr David Cornforth, said………..http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/326046/csiro_opens_renewable_energy_integration_facility.
Gross feed in tariff good news for solar households
Solar households to get paid for all their power ABC News Nov 10, 2009 The New South Wales Government has reversed its policy on solar power – meaning households with solar energy systems will soon be paid for all of the electricity they generate.
The state Government is adopting a gross feed-in tariff system for solar energy rather than the net model which is in place in other states.The Environment Minister John Robertson says it means households will be paid for all of the electricity produced by solar panels, not just the surplus which is fed back into the grid.“It will be the highest payment for families anywhere in the country at 60 cents per kilowatt-hour,” he said.”This will provide households the opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint and also ensure they’re generating electricity using solar cells.”
Solar households to get paid for all their power – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Review: fossil fuel puppets, ANSTO’s poll, France’s nuclear doubts
Review. Australia: Fossil fuel lobbyists using their muscle on Rudd govt to further weaken the already pathetic Emissiosn Trading Scheme. Meanwhile Rudd govt ignores Australia’s chance for solar energy leadership. ANSTO’s latest opinion poll results show overwhelming opposition to nuclear power. A Labor politician claims that South Australians wants a nuke waste dump, just to add to their existing radioactive contamination.
International: world-wide push by well-paid puppets of fossil fuel industries, in order to ruin December’s Copenhagen talks. Continued agonising in USA over mounting nuclear waste. Japan embarks on dangerous trip towards fast breeder nuclear reactors. France’s nuclear export industry has dubious future as safety concerns rise. – the week that has been.
Uranium projects uneconomic due to weak uranium prices
DJ ERA: Weak Uranium Prices, Weak USD Makes Projects UneconomicMon. TRADING MARKETS November 09, 2009; SYDNEY, Nov 09, 2009 Dow Jones Commodities News via Comtex) – Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia Ltd. (ERA.AU), a unit of Rio Tinto Plc (RTP), said Tuesday weak uranium prices as well as the weak U.S. dollar would render new mining projects uneconomic in the longer-term.
This would leave the market heavily dependent on expansions in Kazakstan, in an industry where the global financial crisis was likely to slow new reactor build……………………
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