Energy & Nuclear

After Bob Hawke suggested we should take the world's nuclear waste, I agreed. Geoff Hudson gives six good reasons why at Ockham's Razor: One. The site should be well away from any fault line. Storage sites would not be recommended for Japan, the … [Read more...] about Australia: Best Place on Earth for Nuclear Waste

Once upon a time I often repeated the slogan 'think globally, act locally'. It is perhaps this concept that Bob Hawke was promoting when he suggested last night that Australia become a dumping ground for the world's nuclear waste. According to ABC … [Read more...] about Bob Hawke On Uranium

The Prime Minister has just announced: Today I am pleased to release the report of the Biofuels Taskforce. I commissioned the Taskforce in May of this year to examine the latest evidence on the impacts and benefits of ethanol and other … [Read more...] about PM Announces Support for Biofuels

I missed the following in The Australian this morning, CANADIAN miner Maple Minerals is to take control of one of Queensland's richest uranium deposits in a gamble that the Beattie Government will bow to pressure to reverse Labor's ban on new … [Read more...] about Will Queensland Mine Uranium?

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has announced a 'National Fuel Ethanol' program with plans to mandate ethanol blend E10 for vehicles and in this way reduce dependence on imported oil saving an estimated $1.8 billion. The ethanol will be … [Read more...] about Ethanol: Fuel of the Future?