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Castlemaine shows businesses how to cut emissions
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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.

Vote on climate change legislation, nuclear energy, carbon capture and storage - transcript 22 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090722a.html
In 22 days the Parliament will vote on the Governments climate change legislation. What I will say is that we will present this legislation again to the Senate in August and in 22 days Mr Turnbull has to decide if he is going to take a position on climate change, if he is going to take action on climate change or whether he will continue to lead a party divided.

Climate Trust Board, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Coalition division - transcript 22 July 2009
PORTFOLIO: Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
http://www.environment.gov.au/minister/wong/2009/tr20090722.html
SNIPPET: You are here: &raquo 2009. Yesterday you appointed the former Howard Government Minister Robert Hill as the Chair of the Climate Trust Board. We have spent a lot of time, a lot of energy, and done a lot of work on getting this scheme right - getting this Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme right.

Rudd appoints ex-Coalition minister to key climate policy post; and more
* Rudd appoints ex-Coalition minister to head carbon trust * Subsidise power plant efficiency efforts, Alstom says * Pacific Hydro warns Senate – RET delay puts renewables sector at risk * Change renewables scheme to push 'transformational' technologies, says WWF * Power emissions up 1%, despite renewables growth » read the full story »

World’s climate science chief chastises G8 leaders
G8 leaders accepted a goal of preventing more than two degrees warming, but 'ignored' the path for getting there – ensuring global emissions peak by 2015, says UN chief climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri (plus video link). » read the full story »

Get set to go nuclear and bust renewables myths, says Rio
The Government should debunk the ‘false paradigm’ of low-cost renewables and prepare the groundwork for a domestic nuclear industry, says uranium and coal miner Rio Tinto in its response to the Rudd Government’s energy white paper. » read the full story »

Garrett guillotines solar scheme
Environment Minister Peter Garrett, we are told, treats his staff well, not like some people. But he’s not so kind [...]

Nuclear power and ‘Promethean Environmentalism
’We need to put all the energy cards on the table to solve climate change fully.
Feature - Barry Brook - posted 10/6/2009

Govt is firm against nuclear power,favours geothermal

21/08/2008 - Nuclear power is important for other countries, but not for energy rich Australia, Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says.

Encouraging the development of geothermal energy, however, was exceptionally important, he said.