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Australia: UN body calls Tasmania forest U-turn 'exceptional'
2014-02-04 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia's move to strip part of Tasmania's forest of its world heritage status one year after it was added is "very exceptional", the UN has told the Guardian, adding its experts could not recall such a case in recent years. A Unesco spokeswoman said changes to world heritage sites were not uncommon. But, to the agency's knowledge, the appeal to remove an area so soon after a national government had asked for its addition was unprecedented. "It is highly unusual that a boundary change entail...
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Hydro Tasmania officially opens 168MW Musselroe wind farm in Australia
2014-01-15 01:00:00| Power Technology
Hydro Tasmania has officially opened the 168MW Musselroe wind farm, which is claimed to be the biggest wind farm in Tasmania, Australia.
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Tasmania hopes foreign zoo breeding program will help save devils
2013-06-24 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: About 20 Tasmanian devils will be sent to overseas zoos in an ambitious escalation of the battle against a deadly facial tumour disease that has ravaged the marsupials. The Tasmanian government has launched a pilot project that will see up to three zoos in New Zealand and two in the US take about 20 devils to be exhibited to visitors. Should the project prove successful, up to 100 devils will be dispersed to zoos across Europe, North America and Japan. The move follows the recent breeding...
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Hydro Tasmania signs $1.6bn deal to develop wind farms in Australia
2013-04-11 10:00:00| Power Technology
Australia's leading renewable energy company Hydro Tasmania has signed a cooperation deal with Chinese energy firm Shenhua Group to jointly invest up to $1.6bn to build wind farms in Australia.
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Hot deals: Sunshine Coast, Vanuatu, Tasmania, Asia
2013-03-29 23:40:53| Airlines - Topix.net
Flight Centre has Sunshine Coast holidays including return airfares to Brisbane flying Air New Zealand and seven nights' accommodation from $999 ex Auckland or $909 ex Christchurch, a person, twin share.