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Climate sceptic to lead review of Australia's renewable energy target
2014-02-17 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Abbott government has appointed a self-professed climate sceptic to head an extensive review of the renewable energy target. Dick Warburton, a veteran industrialist and current chairman of the Westfield Retail Trust, described his views on climate science in a 2011 interview on ABC. Well I am a sceptic. Ive never moved away from that. Ive always believed sceptical, he said. But a sceptic is a different person than a denier. I say the science is not settled. Im not saying its wrong....
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South Australia's biggest wind farm approved
2014-02-14 01:00:00| Power Technology
Senvion Australia, formerly REpower Australia, has received conditional approval from the South Australian Government to develop the Ceres wind farm.
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The slow death of Australia's car industry
2014-02-12 22:10:02| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
End of Australia's car industry prompts recession fears
Australia's sugar fields escape major cyclone damage
2014-02-04 07:09:32| Sugar Industry News
Australia's sugar industry, the world's third-biggest exporter, appears to have escaped major damage from a cyclone that swept across main growing regions earlier on Friday. So far there had been no reports of wide-scale damage to the cane growing regions in the path of the cyclone, though the full impact will not become clear until growers has been able to venture back into soggy fields, according to the sector's representative group Canegrowers.
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Coral or coal decision looms for Australia's Great Barrier Reef
2014-01-30 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australia's Great Barrier Reef watchdog is to decide by Friday whether to allow millions of cubic meters of dredged mud to be dumped near the fragile reef to create the world's biggest coal port and possibly unlock $28 billion in coal projects. A dumping permit would allow a major expansion of the port of Abbot Point for two Indian firms and Australian billionaire miner Gina Rinehart, who together have $16 billion worth of coal projects in the untapped, inland Galilee Basin. The Galilee Basin...
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