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Voters in Coalition seats back global ban on new coalmines, poll shows

Voters were told a global moratorium would mean all countries would stop building new coalmines and expanding existing ones, but current mines would continue to operate. About 57.3% of respondents in Abbott’s Sydney seat of Warringah voiced support for the idea, … Continue reading

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Is utility 2.0 a forecast or a post-mortem?

As PM Abbott’s strong leadership harnesses his climate change denier buddies, to cut and cut again, into RET(Renewable Energy Target), will it make Australia look as dumb as recent effort to persuade Cambodia to take our asylum seekers?!?! This story … Continue reading

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The shocking truth about the privatisation of power

As fundamentalist free market economics ideologue Tony Abbott declares his plans to privatise everything, up to and including “saving” Tax Office the trouble of checking tax returns for large companies, being displaced by “big 4” transnational accounting mobs, who need … Continue reading

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Abbott’s chief business advisor claims first wind farm victim

Mr Newman appears to be a serious denialist, even a member of Landscape Guardians, the organisation which cares nothing about the landscape, except for well heeled organisation to oppose wind farms >readmore> RenewEconomy

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Abbott strangles $20B green investment to save 50 cents/week

The only wind turbine in NSW, north of Sydney, the 600kW Kooragang turbine, constructed in 1997 to “promote the emerging green energy market”,  is to be removed by Ausgrid – to make way for a new coal loader. These are dangerous times … Continue reading

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