Monthly Archives: December 2016

Australia blowing carbon budget

Australia has emitted about twice what is allowed by CCA’s carbon budget since 2013. In the three years and nine months to September 2016, the country emitted 19.8% of its share of what the world can emit between 2013 and … Continue reading

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Australia isolated carryover credits cancelled by developed nations from Kyoto

Note – early Christmas media gap has COALition “emptying its garbage” on climate change claiming, over and over, that targets are already met, not revealing deceitful accounting: Five nations announce they will not use emission reduction credits they are entitled to, and on … Continue reading

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Why Australia growing emissions and electricity demand : here’s why

Note – from The Conversation, this is just part showing emissions growth because of pumping, compressing and refrigerating  LNG: To understand why demand is increasing we can look at the three major consumer groups – industry, business and households – as … Continue reading

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Native forests worth more unlogged, so why are we still cutting them down?

VicForests, which isn’t in the plantation business, made a modest profit of $4.7 million in the 2015 financial year, but this is not consistent across the state. In 2015 leaked documents revealed the East Gippsland logging operations lost up to $5.5 … Continue reading

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Frydenberg news CCS

As he returns from COP22 climate talks in Morocco, Minister Frydenberg is boasting other countries impressed by projects making progress with CCS, “one of the biggest in the world being Gorgon LNG”.  If you look, you find “it’s a whole 3.4 to … Continue reading

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LNG $Billions tax avoidance

While government agonises over 2 bob taxation for backpacker fruit pickers, PRRT receipts are in freefall and any meaningful contribution from the industry could be decades away, according to briefings to the government of Western Australia. The numbers begged not to be … Continue reading

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