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Turnbull quiet on talk he'll sack dissenters

Joe Hockey (R) has rubbished claims that Malcolm Turnbull will sack climate change dissenters. (AAP: Alan Porrit) Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull is refusing to comment on reports that he will dump climate change dissenters from his front ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Malcolm Turnbull,  Joe Hockey,  Tony Abbott,  Stephen Smith

Australia: Report details coastal climate change risks

The Federal Government has released a new report titled Climate Change Risks to Australia's coasts. It is the first risk assessment done by the Commonwealth to gauge which areas on the eastern seaboard are most at risk from a sea level rise. Professor ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  16 Nov 2009

Australia: Row over sceptics hits climate ETS talks

AN escalating political row over the views of outspoken Coalition climate change sceptics is threatening ongoing negotiations between the government and opposition over Labor's emissions trading legislation. Climate Change Minister Penny Wong yesterday ...

From AUSTRALIAN, EcoEarth News,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Malcolm Turnbull,  Penny Wong,  Nick Minchin,  Julia Gillard,  Tony Abbott

Australia: New hope for viable clean coal projects

AN unpublished government study has raised hopes that Australia will be able to develop commercially viable clean coal projects because prospective underground storage sites are close to power generation plants. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson said ...

From AUSTRALIAN, EcoEarth News,  24 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Martin Ferguson,  U.S. Energy Corp.,  Al Gore,  Peter Cook

Boost food production or risk starvation: sunrice chief

SunRice CEO Gary Helou has urged world leaders to act globally to prevent a looming food crisis. Speaking at the United Nations Leadership Forum on Climate Change in New York, Gary Helou said food production needs to rise 50 per cent by 2030 to prevent ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  25 Sep 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Australia: Wong says Coalition has no ideas on climate change

TONY EASTLEY: The polls all say Malcolm Turnbull is not at all popular, but everyone wants a piece of him when it comes to debate about emissions trading legislation, or an ETS. The Opposition Leader is facing a divided party room and different ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Penny Wong,  Malcolm Turnbull

Australia: Agriculture impact 'worse than mining'

A keynote speaker at a mining conference in Wollongong says the agriculture sector will come out worse off than the mining sector in the coming decades. Business forecaster Phillip Ruthven from the IBIS Group also told the conference agriculture has a ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  15 Sep 2009

Australia: Pass ETS now: Garnaut

Credibility gap: Ross Garnaut says Australia isn't in the strongest position to lecture other countries on emissions cuts (ABC: File photo) The Federal Government's former climate change adviser Ross Garnaut says Australia's credibility on the issue ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  15 Sep 2009

Australia's methane gas could power the world: expert

Australia's abundant methane gas reserves found in coal seams could help power the world, according to a gas industry consultant. Addressing a major offshore oil and gas industry conference in Darwin this week, Tony Regan of Tri-Zen International says ...

From AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, EcoEarth News,  12 Sep 2009

Records tumble as winter ends on a high

AUSTRALIA has just experienced its warmest winter on record. While the claim won't be official until data for August 31 is collected from the nation's 850 temperature observing stations, yesterday's relatively warm temperatures across the country ...

From AUSTRALIAN, EcoEarth News,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Denny Chin

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