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Nuclear Taboo Under Review in Uranium-Rich Australia
2015-02-11 19:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: While Australia is home to the worlds largest uranium reserves, it has never had a nuclear power plant. Now, amid growing concerns over climate change, the government is weighing whether to reverse its long-held ban. The state of South Australia, where BHP Billiton Ltd. operates the Olympic Dam mine, is setting up a royal commission to evaluate nuclear powers impact on both the regions economy and its carbon emissions. At the same time, the federal government is set to release within months...
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Jacobs wins engineering services contract for Australia Pacific LNG facility
2015-02-11 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Jacobs Engineering Group has secured an engineering services agreement from ConocoPhillips to support the sustaining capital programme for the Australia Pacific LNG facility.
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Australia Food and Drink Report Q2 2015
2015-02-11 01:00:00| Beverage industry market research - from just-drinks.com
Business Monitor International's Australia Food and Drink Report provides industry professionals and strategists, corporate analysts, food and drink associations, government departments and regulatory
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Australia scorching 2013 heat record was virtually impossible without global warming
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Afterwards after the blistering heat and the bushfires they would call it the Angry Summer. But whatever the description, the Australian summer of 2012-2013 provided a terrifying preview of a world under climate change. According to the countrys Bureau of Meteorology, a devastating heat wave in late 2012-early 2013 saw records set in every State and Territory the nationally averaged daily temperature rose to levels never previously observed, and did this for an extended period. What...
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Australia: Greens call for all coal mines to close in NSW
2015-02-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: The NSW Greens will step up the attack on coal, calling for exports to end in five years and existing mines to be phased out. The coal election policy will be outlined on Sunday by Greens upper house MP Jeremy Buckingham, just days after Premier Mike Baird faced noisy protests opening the Whitehaven Coal mine at Maules Creek, which the government says will provide 400 jobs. Farmers have also been angered by last month's planning approval for Chinese coal miner Shenhua near the Liverpool Plains....
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