Energy & Nuclear

The New South Wales Government is proposing to mandate that all standard unleaded petrol will contain 10% of ethanol. This ethanol will mostly be sourced from grain. The main reasons we must oppose this legislation are the humanitarian effects of … [Read more...] about Don’t Grind Grain for Ethanol – by Geoff Ward (Part 2)

Grain prices have suddenly doubled worldwide and are expected to remain at these levels. For the billions of people who spend a large percentage of their income on food, mostly the urban poor in developing countries, this is and will be a disaster. … [Read more...] about Don’t Grind Grain for Ethanol – by Geoff Ward (Part 1)

The recent prediction by the head of Caltex Australia that the price of oil may very well double the already record highs for crude, have only heightened concerns about the security of Australia's future fuel supplies. The Federal Government, for … [Read more...] about Natural Gas to Replace Oil in Australia?

The United States and the European Union have taken a "criminal path" by contributing to an explosive rise in global food prices through using food crops to produce biofuels, the United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food said today. At … [Read more...] about Biofuel Production Criminal: Jean Ziegler

EU plans call for the UK to increase its use of renewables in the energy mix from the current 5% to 15% by 2020. An independent British government commissioned report for BERR, the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, shows that … [Read more...] about EU Renewables Plan to Cost £160 per Household