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Boom and bust in Australia's coal country

2013-09-16 05:31:59| Automakers - Topix.net

Falling resource prices have seen thousands of workers laid off in Australia, and towns like Mackay, at the heart of the coal mining region on the east coast of Queensland, have suffered more than most.

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Boom and bust in Australia's coal country

2013-09-16 01:45:27| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The Harley Davidson days are finally over for Australia's miners

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Australias Powercor Workforce System Tested with Flood

2013-09-13 17:52:00| Transmission & Distribution World

By Alan King, Powercor and CitiPower Australias Powercor mobile workforce management system passes the stress test of a 200-year flood. read more

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Australias climate change fight is doomed as long as it remains Chinas top coal supplier

2013-09-11 17:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Quartz: The newly elected conservative government of Australia, led by incoming prime minister Tony Abbott, has promised to scrap the countrys carbon tax on industrial polluters. That has promoted much teeth-gnashing among environmentalists, but the issue is trivial compared to how much coal Australia exports. Australias year-old tax on carbon was to be a prelude to a greenhouse gas emissions trading market set to launch in July 2014. It would have been the one of the largest carbon markets outside...

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Australia's federal election just couldn't face up to climate change

2013-09-05 05:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: A few days ago, drowned out by election rhetoric on axing carbon pricing, axing carbon pricing and axing the carbon tax, Australia recorded its hottest 12-month period on record. This came hot on the heels (pun intended) of the hottest summer ever recorded in Australia, which featured the most widespread extreme heat wave the country's Bureau of Meteorology and the country's rural firefighters had ever had the pleasure to document or fight. One study in a leading journal found that human emissions...

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