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Who Will Pay the Price for Australia's Climate Change Policies?
2015-09-09 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ethiopian Herald: Rowan Foley has spent many years as a ranger and park manager, caring for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park Aboriginal lands in the spiritual heart of Australia's Red Centre in the Northern Territory. He has been observing the effects of soaring temperatures and extreme weather events on his people, residing in some of the hottest regions of the country. "There are hotter and more frequent fires. Salt water intrusion is leading to less fresh water. This is impacting on indigenous traditional owners...
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Agriculture's Contribution to Australia's Economy Grows
2015-09-09 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AUSTRALIA - Australian farmers’ contribution to the nation’s wealth through export earnings is increasing at a time when other commodities are on the wane.
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Australia's Woodside approaches Oil Search with $8 billion bid
2015-09-08 04:54:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Woodside Petroleum Ltd, Australia's biggest independent oil and gas producer, has approached smaller rival Oil Search Ltd with an $8 billion all-share takeover plan, which Oil Search said on Tuesday it was considering. A takeover of Oil Search would help fill a gap in Woodside's growth prospects, giving it a 29 percent stake in Oil Search's Papua New Guinea Liquefied Natural Gas project, which started producing last year and is considered one of the lowest cost, expandable LNG projects in the world.
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How Australias Electricity Demand Is Slashed By Solar PV
2015-09-05 13:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: Every Australian household is aware of just how much electricity bills have risen in the past five years. They have effectively doubled, driven almost entirely by soaring network costs the result of building a grid for demand forecasts that were never met. And the reason they were never met is because the energy industry scoffed at two major innovations energy efficiency and rooftop solar. Consumers ended up paying billions of dollars for an oversized network, in anticipation of demand peaks...
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Australia's Climate Policy Allows for Increased Emissions, Critics Contend
2015-09-02 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has signed off on detailed rules for its Direct Action climate policy, which experts say will allow big industry to actually increase greenhouse emissions. The so-called safeguards mechanism is supposed to ensure that increased emissions from heavy industry and electricity generators do not undo the reductions bought through the governments $2.5bn scheme. Related: Australia's Direct Action fund may need $1bn more to meet emissions target The environment minister,...
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