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Australia: Tony Abbott's warfare against action on climate change has started
2013-09-26 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Despite repeated promises to the contrary, it is now becoming clear that the Abbott government has no intention of taking meaningful action on climate change. The Coalition's so-called Direct Action policy has always been a farce and a policy fig leaf to cover Tony Abbott's belief that climate change science is, as he once described it, "crap' -- a view shared by the hand-picked chair of his new Business Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, who recently declared that "anthropological' (as he described...
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Australia could be left with no policy on climate change
2013-09-25 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia could be left without any policy to combat climate change with a new Senate likely to wave through the repeal of Labor's carbon tax but sceptical of the Coalition government's alternative $3.2bn Direct Action plan unless Tony Abbott makes major policy concessions. Labor and the Greens remain determined to block the carbon tax repeal in the existing Senate, which sits until next July, but after that the Coalition appears likely to get the necessary six of eight independent and minor-party...
Australia: NSW under pressure to water down rules on coal seam gas
2013-09-23 23:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New South Wales is under intense pressure to water down tough coal seam gas regulations announced before the federal election as the Abbott government vows "anarchist" anti-CSG protesters who disrespect the law will not sway its determination to kick-start the industry. As protests to proposed new coal seam gas wells escalated before the federal election, the NSW government, with the encouragement of the then federal Coalition resources spokesman, Ian Macfarlane, and to the dismay of the gas industry,...
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Massive Port Projects Threaten Integrity Australia Famed Great Barrier Reef
2013-09-23 18:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Time: A dead cat in the in-tray. That`s what Greenpeace called the newly elected Australian government`s inheritance of a proposal to build the largest coal port in the world at Abbot Point in the northeastern state of Queensland. A decision is required, and the stakes couldn`t be any higher. On one side lies the opportunity to efficiently exploit nine proposed megamines in the Galilee Basin and the thousands of jobs and billions of export dollars that entails. On the other lies the integrity of the...
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Australia: 'Mega-mines' in Queensland's Galilee basin would guzzle water, report says
2013-09-23 08:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Nine planned "mega-mines" in the Galilee basin region of Queensland would drain the area of 1,354bn litres of water, equivalent to two-and-a-half times the volume of Sydney harbour, threatening the future of dozens of farming communities, a new report has found. The study, undertaken by the anti-mining network Lock the Gate and overseen by Tom Crowthers, former general manager of water planning and allocation for the Queensland government, says the mines could cause "unacceptable impacts" on the...
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