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Australia: Tree planting 'offset' allowing miners to destroy ecosystems
2016-03-17 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Planting trees on old mine sites can count as an offset, allowing miners to destroy native ecosystems elsewhere, despite documents showing government staff recommended against the move. The revelations appear in documents obtained under freedom of information laws by the NSW Nature Conservation Council and revealed by Fairfax Media. Staff in the Office of Environment and Heritage thought the expansion of what could count as an offset went too far, and was a political decision, rather than...
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Murray Goulburn to build $224m milk powder factory in Victoria, Australia
2016-03-17 01:00:00| Food Processing Technology
Dairy cooperative Murray Goulburn (MG) has announced plans to construct a milk powder facility at Koroit in south-west Victoria, Australia, with an investment of approximately A$300m ($223.8m).
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Australia a bad neighbour to Pacific islands on climate, says former Irish president
2016-03-16 07:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australia has not been a good neighbour to the Pacific islands vulnerable to climate change and needs to get out of fossil fuel-based growth faster, says Mary Robinson, the former Irish president turned climate change campaigner. Speaking to Guardian Australia, she also urged rich countries to contribute to sustainable development in poor countries and to do so in their own self-interest. Her former role as UN special envoy for climate change meant she had heard the pleas from developing countries...
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Australia: Joe Hockey on CSIRO cuts: former treasurer's letter to the New York Times dissected
2016-03-15 08:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Australias former treasurer Joe Hockey has weighed into the debate about cuts to climate research at CSIRO, by writing a letter to the New York Times. In February, CSIRO chief executive Larry Marshall announced the agency would halve its commitment to climate change modelling and measurement. In his new role as Australias ambassador to the US, Hockey took umbrage at an editorial the newspaper published, titled Australia turns its back on climate science. But in defending Australias...
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Australia: NSW anti-protest laws an attack on democracy, say legal experts
2016-03-15 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Proposed laws that intend to increase tenfold the fines for coal seam gas and mining protesters in New South Wales have been strongly criticised by the Law Society of NSW and the NSW Bar Association, just as they are expected to be rushed through both houses of parliament. The reaction came as hundreds of protesters gathered outside Parliament House in Sydney to express their opposition to the proposals. Some of their placards read: You gotta fight for your right to fight for your right. The...
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