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, …
The presence of toxic waste in Sydney Harbour in Australia has forced authorities to invest around us $150 million in a clean-up programme. They also put an end to centuries of commercial fishing and have warned recreational anglers not to eat the harbour fish. These steps were taken after tests …
Australia's highest environment penalty of more than us $1 million was recently imposed on a German shipping company for an oil spill in Phillip Island. The court found the ship was knowingly sailing with leaking oil tanks and structural problems, when it left Melbourne for Sydney on February 27, 2003. …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20051231/36_graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=250,height=250,scrollbars=yes") } Cement manufacturing is a dry process: from mining limestone to packaging cement. An average cement plant handles and stores millions of tonnes of raw material annually. The dust it generates makes the cement industry excessively polluting. Dust emissions are of two kinds
a project to develop peas with pest-resistance induced through genetic changes has been given up after tests on mice showed allergic lung damage. Scientists at Australia's Common wealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation had taken a gene from the bean plant and transferred it into peas. The gene expresses a …
Five fishermen have been acquitted by the district court jury in Perth, Australia, against poaching rare Patagonian toothfish worth around us $1 million. The damages claimed from the Australian federal government could exceed us $30 million. The fishing boat owner and the charter company that used it are trying to …
• Traditional owners from Northern Territory, Australia gathered outside Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney to rally against plans to place a nuclear waste facility on their land • All new and renewed US passports will contain radio frequency identification chips that will include a digital photo and all other …
• Army contractors halted operations at the Newport Chemical Depot, in western Indiana, as nearly 500 gallons of caustic wastewater containing hydrolysate, leaked into a sealed area at the facility. This plant is used for destroying Cold War era chemical weapon VX. • A regional conference on sustainable transportation and …
As some regions in Australia enter the fourth year of drought, the federal government has announced changes to the exceptional circumstances drought assistance. Under the amendments, 19 areas in New South Wales, three in Victoria, one in South Australia and two Queensland boards will automatically be re-assessed to see if …
australian scientists have developed a biomaterial more resilient than rubber. Its constituent molecules are naturally found in many insects, such as the fruitfly and flea. The new substance
• About 70 residents of Alice Springs, Australia met on September 1, 2005 and voted to keep their community radio station 8 CCC on the air. The station operates out of Charles Darwin University, which has clashed with station management over content. The university wants the station's programme to have …
heady odour: US scientists have found how odours generate signals that eventually travel to the brain. As per the current knowledge, our sense of smell converts odours into brain signals, just as our vision converts light into brain signals. But the researchers at the Johns Hopkins' Institute for Basic Biomedical …
fishy plant: A team of Australian scientists has created a plant that yields the highly beneficial long-chain omega-3 fatty acids usually found in fish oil. Allan Green of CSIRO, an Australian research organisation in Canberra, and his team have developed a type of thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) by inserting genes …
It is reform time for drought-hit Australia. On May 30, 2005, the federal government offered farmers an additional us $189 million, raising their total drought aid package to us $0.9 billion. Then, on May 31, 2005, the country's largest city Sydney, in New South Wales, announced fresh restrictions on water …
Australian prime minister John Howard and the premier of the state of Tasmania, Paul Lennon, recently announced a us$188.6 million package to restructure Tasmania's forestry industry and combat old-growth logging. Partly funded by the Tasmanian government, the move comprises declaring a million hectares (ha) land as a reserve. Pointing out …
function graph() { var popurl="files/images/20050531/28-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=600,height=260,scrollbars=yes") } • An average Indian spends more time on washing as compared to people of other countries. • Worldwide, washing has a gender bias, with women spending more time in the activity than men. • Surprisingly, in India the time spent on washing by …
