This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
KOLKATA: Gujarat NRE Coke, which has coke units in India and coking coal mines in Australia, on Friday announced its plans to set up a greenfield one-million tonne coke plant in Andhra Pradesh at an investment of Rs. 450 crore. Company Vice-Chairman and Managing Director Arun Kumar Jagatramka said that …
Gujarat NRE Coke is planning to invest around $450 million (Rs 1,935 crore) to raise the total coking coal production from its Australian mines to 7 million tonnes by 2012-13. The company has two mines in Australia and the production from the second coal mine in that country commenced recently. …
Sydney, July 18: A veterinarian in Australia plunged his arm up to his shoulder into the throat of a rare shark to save the animal after it swallowed a grappling hook. David Blyde reached between the jaws of the 3-metre gray nurse shark to dislodge the hook, which was stuck …
Cancer survival rate varies widely between countries, according to a worldwide study of the cancers of the breast (women), colon, rectum and prostate. The five-year survival rate for prostate cancer is the highest in the United States as compared to any of the 31 countries studied as part of the …
AS IF rising gasoline prices weren't enough, motorists are being hit by higher parking charges, with London coming up tops as the world's most expensive city to park your car, according to a survey. Parking your car in the City, London's financial district, costs on average $68.07 a day, or …
Sushmi Dey & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI WHILE the Indo-US nuclear deal may be waiting in the wings, the government has proposed yet another initiative to boost the growth of alternative energy sources in the country. It is planning to enact a new Renewable Energy Law that would stipulate mandatory …
The Rudd Government's Green Paper on carbon trading uses adjectives like "smoother", "gradual", and "measured" to describe the scheme's implementation because cutting Australia's emissions by 60 per cent in four decades is going to produce profound structural change, and, inevitably, political repercussions. Like a dentist poised above you, drill in …
YOU can think of yesterday's green paper as a sandpaper job. Labor had already committed to introduce emissions trading as the best way to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. Such a plan has sharp edges that stand to hurt voters and business alike. The green paper is about keeping the …
THE Government's green paper on carbon trading uses adjectives like "smoother", "gradual", and "measured" to describe the scheme's implementation, because cutting Australia's emissions by 60% in four decades is going to produce profound structural change, and, inevitably, political repercussions. Like a dentist poised above you, drill in hand, the Government …
ONE of the first things Kevin Rudd did as Prime Minister was to ratify the Kyoto Protocol to bring Australia into line with most of the world on climate change. It was a gesture loaded with good intentions and purpose. Yesterday the Government released its green paper on how to …
Australian households will receive either tax cuts or increased family payments to offset higher electricity and fuel prices, as the government admits its climate change plan will drive up inflation. The framework of Labor's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has been released in Canberra, detailing the government's plan to meet its …
THE Federal Government's draft legislation for a world-first regulated carbon capture and storage (CCS) system has failed to pass muster with the very groups it is meant to help, including backers of the $5 billion Monash Energy coal-to-liquids project in the Latrobe Valley. Complaints with the draft legislation raise doubts …
The burden of Labor's climate change plan will be carried by Australia's big business, particularly those operating in the powerful resources sector. The government's Green Paper, released today in Canberra, outlines that the pollutions penalty will apply for businesses that emit more than 25,000 tonnes of carbon each year. Labor …
FOUR in 10 doctors are thinking of leaving their profession because of disenchantment with the Rudd Government's health-care reforms, a survey has found. The survey, in the doctors' journal Medical Observer, shows doctors have savaged plans to overhaul primary health care and found three-quarters of them believe proposed super-clinics will …
the verdict is finally out. Modern agricultural practices, espoused by the industrial farming model, and genetically modified crops are not good for the planet and its inhabitants, says the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development report. What lends weight to the conclusions of the report is …
About 1,000 of Australia's biggest polluting companies will need to buy permits under an emissions trading scheme expected to be introduced in 2010 to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the minister for climate change, Penny Wong said on Sunday. Australia, highly dependent on coal for making electricity and generating …
$5 billion of federal taxpayers' money to create 900 gigalitres of water "savings" from the Victorian part of the Murray-Goulburn Basin. The water will be allocated a third each to the rivers, the Victorian irrigators and Melbourne (via the north-south pipeline). This is a lot of water. It is equal …
AUSTRALIA lags behind most rich nations in taking the easiest steps to make an emissions trading scheme as cheap as possible: becoming more energy efficient at home, work and on the road. Due largely to a love of petrol-guzzling cars and an energy-intensive manufacturing sector, Australia's energy efficiency improved at …
THE world must go back to embracing nuclear power as one of its options if it is going to win the fight against global warming, economist Jeffrey Sachs warns. Professor Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of The End of Poverty, warned that global warming …
