Energy & Nuclear

From Tuesday (1 July), businesses emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases will be required to monitor and measure the emissions ahead of reporting them to the Government by October next year. Minister for Climate Change and Water, Senator Penny … [Read more...] about Energy Intensive Australian Businesses To Report Emissions from Tomorrow: Media Release from Penny Wong

In an ongoing effort to get through to the Queensland Government, our local ratepayers association is considering a full-page advertisement in the environmental liftout of a local newspaper. It would include an open letter to the Premier of … [Read more...] about Daintree Power Struggles

I've often thought that maybe the Kyoto Protocol could have been more aptly named the 'Don Quixote Protocol.' Why? Because 'Kyoto' sounds like 'Quixote' and, in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, Quixote fought an imaginary enemy of giants that … [Read more...] about UK’s Looming Energy Gap Suffers ‘Wind Chill’

Oh! the joy of living under the Soviet EU and policies driven by global warming alarmism: The unexpected shutdown of two power stations on Tuesday, May 29, led to the worst disruption to the UK’s power network in more than 20 years, prompting new … [Read more...] about EU Rule Put Half a Million Homes in the Dark

On 10th June we learned that Australia's first locally manufactured hybrid car will roll off Toyota's production line in less than two years, in a deal Victorian Premier John Brumby has heralded as a 'coup'. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Toyota's … [Read more...] about How ‘Green’ is the Hybrid Car?

There is a new paper (in press) in the journal Climatic Change by Peter Sheenan of the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia entitled: 'The new global growth path: implications for climate change analysis … [Read more...] about The Only Way is UP: Reality Trumps Emissions Projections