Australian Government Media Releases

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme - transcript 23 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090723a.html
Obviously the Government does not have the majority in the Senate, and if the Opposition - who does have the largest block of votes in the Senate - want to put things to us, the Government will consider them. We've had advice from different sources, we've also spoken to the electricity market regulators and those are the things we considered before arriving at our decision to provide assistance through the Electricity Sector Adjustment Scheme of around $3 billion.

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, nuclear energy - transcript 23 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
URL: http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090723.html
Now the other point that's come up in recent days, Rio Tinto mentioning that we need to look at nuclear energy as a possibility to supply our energy needs. I've just wondering if there's any point in time where we might see a change in the swing back to nuclear energy given that there seems to be a, well an ongoing push, certainly it's an ongoing discussion point of the consideration of nuclear energy.

Castlemaine shows business how to cut emissions (Media Release)
PORTFOLIO: Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
URL: http://www.csiro.au/news/Castlemaine-shows-how-to-cut-emissions.html
SNIPPET: The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. The Marine National Facility -. Project leader from CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship, Dr Bill Lilley, said each business had specific energy needs and so the options available to achieve emissions savings had to be tailored to their individual operations.