There are out-of-control fires burning across northern Victoria, Australia, with more than 170,000 hectares consumed so far. There is an update in today's The Age and also a photo gallery which can be accessed from the main page. Yesterday I phoned … [Read more...] about Bushfires Across North East Victoria: A Note from Max Rheese
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Pondering Peak Oil: Following Transport Fuels Forum
James Ward, convenor of the Australian Association for Peak Oil and Gas Young-Professionals Working Group, recently attended a Forum in Adelaide on 'Transport Fuels: Future Prices & Supply Security Risks'. Here is his very much abridged summary … [Read more...] about Pondering Peak Oil: Following Transport Fuels Forum
Brisbane to Vote on Waste Water Recycling
I live in Brisbane, in south east Queensland, and the city has historically relied on three dams for all its water. Not so many years ago politicians boasted that the dams were big and we would always have enough water. Now we have level 4 water … [Read more...] about Brisbane to Vote on Waste Water Recycling
New Picture Book on Buyat Bay
Buyat Bay on the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, is perhaps best known as the place where Canadian mining giant Newmont dumped tailing from a gold mine allegedly polluting the bay and poisioning the local villagers. Increasingly it appears the … [Read more...] about New Picture Book on Buyat Bay
GM Canola Arrives in Australia by Ship
It is a pity that GM canola has arrived in Australia, not as a crop for farmers to grow, but as a shipment of seed grown in Canada ready for crushing in Australia. Indeed yesterday a shipment of genetic engineered canola came into the Port of … [Read more...] about GM Canola Arrives in Australia by Ship
In Defence of Industrialisation and Mining: A Note from Jack Sturgess
During a career in the mining industry, I lived and worked in Australia, PNG, Canada and the US; I also worked for months at a time in New Zealand and South Africa and for weeks at a time in Alaska, Mexico and Indonesia. I only had to move around … [Read more...] about In Defence of Industrialisation and Mining: A Note from Jack Sturgess
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
