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A Carbon Tax That Can Rise From Australia's Ashes
2014-07-20 07:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: As the post-mortems arrive to determine the cause of death for Australia's carbon tax, a couple of questions emerge: Why did this happen? What lessons can we learn? The answer to the first question is fairly simple: A politician - Julia Gillard - promised she wouldn't tax carbon, and then she broke that promise. This happened because her Labor Party needed to form a coalition government with the Green Party. The price the Greens demanded for that alliance was a carbon tax, and so she acquiesced....
KBR to maintain Australias new landing helicopter-dock vessels
2014-06-30 01:00:00| Naval Technology
Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR) has received a contract to maintain Australias new landing helicopter-dock (LHD) vessels.
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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging
2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...
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U.N. rejects Australia's bid to strip rainforest of heritage status
2014-06-24 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The United Nations has unanimously rejected an Australian proposal to revoke the heritage status of 74,000 hectares (183,000 acres) of Tasmania's rainforest and enable them to be reopened to logging. Added to the World Heritage List in 1982, the Tasmanian Wilderness 'constitutes one of the last expanses of temperate rainforest in the world', says U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, and sprawls over more than one million hectares (2.47 million acres), or a fifth of the island. At a meeting in Doha,...
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World Heritage Committee takes 10 min reject Australia's bid to strip forests of protection
2014-06-23 22:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The UNESCO World Heritage Committee today unanimously rejected a controversial proposal by the Australian government to strip 74,000 hectares of temperate rainforest from a World Heritage Site in Tasmania. In an embarrassing setback for the Australia government, it took the committee less than ten minutes to unanimously reject the proposal, according to the Guardian. The 74,000 hectares in question were a part of a so-called "peace deal" between environmentalists and loggers in Tasmania, which...
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