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Category: government
Opposition puts carbon tax on the table
If Rudd is NOT a dud, then his CPRS certainly seems to be.It’s coming under increasing scruitiny and pressure from all sides – although perhaps not from the polluting industries which stand to profit from it!Now the Federal Opposition is chiming in, having...
“Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them”
Dr James Hansen, atmospheric scientist and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies is well respected by the climate action movement and famous for his longstanding and outspoken warnings on the threats of global warming and climate change. Also...
Warming gets cold shoulder from Canberra
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/warming-gets-cold-shoulder-from-canberra-20090128-7ryv.html?page=-1David Spratt, The Age, January 29, 2009The Government is jogging on the spot when it needs to take bigstrides.WHEN representatives of community climate action groups...