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Court reserves climate decision
by Environmental Manager editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
10 August 2010
NSW Land and Environment Court Justice Nicola Pain has reserved her decision in a case testing whether CO2 is a waste that should be regulated under NSW environment laws.
Tourism climate impact tender
by Environmental Manager editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
3 August 2010
The fed Dept of Resources, Energy and Tourism has called for tenders to study the economic impact of climate change on Aust’s tourism industry.
Coalition won’t cost climate policy
by Carbon Extra editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
Fed Coalition climate change spokesperson Greg Hunt last night appeared to refuse to agree to submit the party’s climate change policy figures to scrutiny under The Charter of Budget Honesty Act (CBH) process.
Brumby upsets climate debate
by Environmental Manager editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
Vic Premier John Brumby’s audacious call for the next Fed Govt to help the state pay to shut the Hazelwood power station has refocused debate around the major parties’ fed election climate policies. The brown coal-fired Hazelwood plant in Vic’s La trobe Valley is one of Aust’s most polluting power stations.
Gillard vows to transform energy
by Carbon Extra editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
Transforming Aust’s energy sector to ready it for a carbon price in coming years underpins fed Labor’s climate change policy that Prime Minister Julia Gillard this morning released in Brisbane.
Climate case given green light
by Carbon Extra editor and journalist Deborah Nesbitt
The NSW Land and Environment Court has thrown out most of Aust’s first climate change case, agreeing with Macquarie Generation its licence allows it to emit CO2.
ACCC warns of $3.5m carbon ’scam’
by Carbon Extra journalist Lindsay Marshall
The ACCC has warned Aust investors against dealing with a Tokyo-based firm whose telemarketers promise high returns from trading carbon credits.