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Australia: World's largest carbon capture begins even as Abbott tax repeal looms
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has pledged to repeal the country's carbon tax to boost economic competitiveness, so it is ironic that Australia is about to host the world's most ambitious project for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. Starting in 2014/15, Chevron will begin injecting 120 million tonnes of pressurised supercritical carbon dioxide 2.5 kilometres underground as part of its giant Gorgon LNG project. Raw gas from the Gorgon field contains about 14 per cent carbon...
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Australia: NSW bushfires this week a taste of things to come
2013-09-11 08:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: New South Wales and Victoria have been warned to expect a fierce bushfire season, with the head of a government-funded research body warning that bushfire prospects are "as bad as we've seen in quite some time'. Dr Richard Thornton, chief executive of the Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre, told Guardian Australia that the fires that have raged in NSW this week are "unusually early' but are consistent with a heightened risk of bushfires in the state over the coming months....
Australia: Climate change will 'exacerbate existing problems': Defence
2013-09-11 00:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: WHEN AUSTRALIAN professors Colin Butler, Tony McMichael and Will Steffen stood up to talk climate change at a series of briefings in Canberra earlier this year there was something very different about the audience. This wasn't a forum organised by an environment group where the seats are taken up by the usual cohort of the climate concerned. Instead, this audience was full of hardheaded military types and members of the defence community - people worried more about conflict and geopolitics than...
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Australia: Tony Abbott's carbon price referendum was a flop
2013-09-11 00:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Just five days before polling day, then-opposition leader Tony Abbott declared at Australia's National Press Club that the 2013 election would be a referendum on the carbon price. "More than anything," Mr Abbott said, "this election is a referendum on the carbon tax." The Australian federal election was held on Saturday 7 September, an event notable for vast absenteeism at the polling booths in a nation with compulsory voting. Factoring in early voting and postal voting, there are likely...
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Australia rips up climate-change policies
2013-09-10 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Australia's landslide election result seems to be bad news for the climate. Following the election of a new government, Australia is to abolish its emissions trading scheme, disband a climate advisory body and institute a carbon reduction policy that experts say will fail to meet its meagre target. It will also scale back the country's embryonic National Broadband Network and direct funding away from research projects it deems "ridiculous". The conservative Liberal-National coalition, headed...
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