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APR Energy To Provide Low-Emission Dual-Fuel Gas Turbine Power To Tasmania
2016-04-18 06:01:00| pollutiononline Home Page
APR Energy, a global leader in fast-track power solutions, announces today that it has signed a contract with Hydro Tasmania to install and operate three clean-burning dual-fuelgas turbines.
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Tasmania forest logging bid dropped
2016-03-20 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The Australian and Tasmanian authorities are abandoning their bid to have logging permitted in the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage site. The decision comes after a report by the UN cultural agency Unesco said the area "should be off-limits to commercial logging in its entirety". The Tasmanian Wilderness covers about a fifth of the island and is one of the world's last big temperate forests. Conservation groups have welcomed the Unesco report and the logging decision. In 2014 the...
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Fears fruit fly could jeopardise export markets Tasmania
2016-02-21 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Tasmania's fruit fly-free status could be under threat, jeopardising millions of dollars worth of exports into lucrative Asian markets, a biosecurity scientist warns. Key points: Tasmania currently enjoys fruit fly-free status; opens up trade in key Asian markets Increase in temperature could allow pest to establish in Tasmania Climate change now considered factor in biosecurity risk modelling Tasmania's fruit growers currently benefit from the state's fruit fly-free status, allowing...
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Kirin's Lion trims Tasmania beer operations, cuts jobs
2016-02-08 14:23:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
Kirin's Australia unit, Lion, is to move a portion of its brewing operations away from Tasmania, resulting in around 39 job losses.
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Groups Want To Know If Climate Change Caused Tasmania Wildfire
2016-02-04 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: With massive wildfires ravaging Tasmania`s ancient forests for more than two weeks, groups are now calling for official inquiries on whether climate change is partly to blame. As of Thursday, 70 fires remain active across this island state south of Australia, with 46 of them still out of control, according to Tasmania Fire Service. No lives have been lost, but what has been called the worst wildfire in the country`s history has burned more than 100,000 hectares (386 square miles), including up...
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