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Australia: Renewable energy target survives review, despite criticism
2013-03-21 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia's renewable energy target will survive at its current size after the Gillard government rejected calls from some of the country's largest power companies and business lobbies to cut it back. Responding to a review of the target on Thursday, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet said the government had decided to maintain the current target to ensure certainty for investors. He said modelling by the Climate Change Authority -- which carried out a review of the target and recommended...
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GE Oil & Gas secures service contract for LNG plant in Australia
2013-03-21 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
US-based GE Oil & Gas has signed a 22-year contractual service agreement (CSA) with QGC, to provide advanced technology services to the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) plant located on the east coast of Australia, for $620m.
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AUSTRALIA: Restructuring hits David Jones H1 profit
2013-03-20 15:26:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Department store operator David Jones posted lower net profit and revenue figures for the first half of fiscal 2013, thanks to strategic investments and challenging trading conditions.
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Australia: Climate change politics is a values problem
2013-03-20 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: Many climate sceptics do not trust environmentalists because they consider them "borderline communists" who want to curtail people's freedom, a leading US social scientist says. Speaking on Wednesday night, the University of Michigan's Andy Hoffman said US global warming sceptics had "a serious distrust of the political ideology behind its proponents". "The fear is that environmentalists are left-leaning, they are socialist, borderline communists, and they are using the government to try to...
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Australia: Flood plans ignore climate change: expert
2013-03-20 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
AAP: PLANNING laws and flood mitigation strategies in Australia don't take into account the future impacts of climate change, leaving communities at risk from greater and more frequent extreme weather, experts warn. During an online forum on Wednesday, Australian National University's Karen Hussey presented the findings from a review of four major flood reports from Queensland and Victoria. Her team analysed how effective flood mitigation strategies were and compared them to initiatives in China,...
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