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Australia: Wildfire forces anti-logging activist from tree after 457-day vigil
2013-03-07 07:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A bushfire has forced an environmental campaigner from the top of a tree following a 457-day vigil to block logging of a stand of old-growth forest in Australia. Miranda Gibson, 31, has been perched 60 meters of an ancient gum tree in southwestern Tasmania since December 14, 2011. From the tree she has led a media campaign using her solar-powered computer to block a Malaysian company from logging the surrounding area. The company, Ta Ann, has been linked to destruction of rainforests in Borneo,...
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Australia coal-fired generation will replace gas in absence of carbon pricing: report
2013-03-07 01:00:00| Power Technology
Energy and carbon advisory firm RepuTex predicts that natural gas-fired generation in Australia will fall by more than 60% if the government's carbon price mechanism (CPM) was removed from the market, and Australian gas prices continue to rise.
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Australia: Scientists study reef remnants to understand climate change
2013-03-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canberra Times: Scientists have mapped and filmed the remnants of a coral reef off the NSW mid-north coast in an effort to better understand the effects of climate change. Using multi-beam sonar imaging and video cameras a team of scientists from the University of Wollongong, Geoscience Australia and the NSW Department of Primary Industries surveyed a reef near Lord Howe Island, about 600km east of Port Macquarie. Core samples, videos and a topographical map of the sea floor were captured during the two-week...
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VIDEO: Australia attracts Chinese tourists
2013-03-06 04:47:21| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
One of Australia's biggest sources of revenue is tourism and numbers of Chinese visitors are up.
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Jacobs Receives Contract From Shell In Australia
2013-03-05 08:45:00| dairynetwork News Articles
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. JEC) announced recently that it has been selected by the Shell Company of Australia Ltd. for its Clyde Terminal Conversion Project in Sydney, Australia. Officials did not disclose the contract value, but noted that the work is being performed from Jacobs’ Australian operations in Melbourne and Sydney
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