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Australia: John Howard rejects climate change claims
2013-11-05 23:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
WA Today: Former prime minister John Howard has poured scorn on the "alarmist" scientific consensus on global warming in a speech to a gathering of British climate sceptics, comparing those calling for action on climate change to religious zealots. Mr Howard said he was an "agnostic" on climate science and he preferred to rely on his instinct, which told him that predictions of doom were exaggerated. Former Prime Minister John Howard told the Global Warming Policy Foundation, a group of UK climate change...
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AUSTRALIA: Billabong sells West 49 chain to YM
2013-11-04 12:45:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Struggling Australian surfwear company Billabong is to sell its West 49 chain in Canada to apparel retailer YM Inc, ending months of speculation.
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Australia: Environment minister Greg Hunt approves nation's largest coalmine
2013-11-04 03:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: The federal government has approved a massive coalmining project in central Queensland that will be the largest in the country. The environment minister, Greg Hunt, approved the 37,380-hectare Kevin's Corner project on Friday. The mine, to be operated by a joint India-Australia consortium, GVK-Hancock, is the first to be approved since the introduction of a water trigger rule by the previous federal government. Greenpeace claims Kevin's Corner will use more than 9bn litres of water a year...
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Australia: BHP Billiton scraps plans for new coal port at Abbot Point in Queensland
2013-11-03 02:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: BHP Billiton has scrapped plans to build a major new coal port on the Queensland coast, as a new report warns that the state's haste to expand existing ports is misguided and could result in job losses. BHP said it has pulled out as developer of terminal two at the Abbot Point port, near the Queensland town of Bowen, as well as an accompanying rail line that would have taken coal from mines to be exported. The $5bn plan, which would have transferred up to 60m tonnes of coal a year to Abbot...
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NSA: Australia & US used climate change conference to spy on Indonesia
2013-11-02 21:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australian spy agency the Defence Signals Directorate worked alongside America's National Security Agency in mounting a massive surveillance operation on Indonesia during the United Nations climate change conference in Bali in 2007. The newly-elected prime minister Kevin Rudd was making his first high-profile international foray at the conference, at the personal invitation of Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. A new document from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals the intelligence...
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