By Julian Bajkowski The Federal Government has moved to start overhauling the way greenhouse gasses released into the atmosphere from highly controversial coal seam gas (CSG) sites are measured and…
Category: Sustainability
NSW mayors dispatched to US
By Paul Hemsley Mayors from New South Wales will meet with leading American experts in sustainable urban design and planning from this week to thrash out how they can embed…
Defence tenders for Green Fleet tow trucks
By Paul Hemsley The Joint Logistics Command branch of the Department of Defence will has said it will go to market for a contractor to remove military vehicles that break…
Melbourne declares itself ‘carbon neutral’
By Paul Hemsley The City of Melbourne has hailed itself as ‘carbon neutral’ after being certified by the Australian Government’s independent carbon offsetting authority Low Carbon Australia through the council’s…
NSW consigns FleetWise to scrap heap
By Paul Hemsley New South Wales Premier Barry O’Farrell’s campaign against so-called green-tape has resulted in the state government’s FleetWise program being junked on the basis it duplicates a similar…
Tasmania to build $2 billion wind farm
By Paul Hemsley Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings has backed a move to build the largest wind farm in the southern hemisphere on King Island at a cost of $2 billion….
Federal funds put councils in hot water
By Paul Hemsley Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus, has launched a program to help local councils install solar or heat pump hot water systems in…
SA solar inquiry heats up
By Paul Hemsley South Australian Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Tom Koustantonis has announced a parliamentary inquiry into the use of solar thermal energy to replace coal used for electricity…
Australia’s largest solar plant opens
By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian government has opened Australia’s largest operating solar power station to date 50km south-east of the coastal town of Geraldton. Known as the Greenough River…
Silex funded for next stage of world’s largest solar plant
By Paul Hemsley Sun rays will fire-up 35,000 households around Mildura after the Victorian government’s approved a $10 million grant to Silex Systems to complete the world’s biggest solar plant….