A legislative review committee will hand down recommendations on the Renewable Energy Act to the Australian Government today. The Wilderness Society has been campaigning to have woodchip burning banned.
posted by seamas on September 29, 2003 at 8:34 am · filed under 
A new plan for the management of Macquarie Island, including educational tourism and pest eradication, is open for public comment.
posted by seamas on September 29, 2003 at 8:28 am · filed under 
With the World Conference on Climate Change set to begin, Russia has said its stance on ratification of the Kyoto Protocol will be decided by economic and political factors.
posted by seamas on September 29, 2003 at 8:25 am · filed under
A new $172 million program between New South Wales State Forests and ST-Micro to plant 12 million trees in order to soak up carbon won’t be as effective as preserving old trees on private land, according to consultant Greg Clancy.
posted by seamas on September 26, 2003 at 9:09 am · filed under
Mineral Commodities, an Australian mining company, has come under fire over its Xolobeni Project in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. A number of South African environment groups are fighting to protect dunes in the area.
posted by seamas on September 26, 2003 at 9:02 am · filed under
A New South Wales government body, to be called the Department of Environment and Conservation, will be formed with the merger of the state Environment Protection Authority, the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, Resource NSW and the Royal Botanic Gardens.
posted by seamas on September 25, 2003 at 9:43 pm · filed under 
Thirteen councils have so far responded to a $300,000 Melbourne Water initiative to develop Sustainable Water Use Plans. Each council is eligible for a $10,000 grant to develop their plan to reduce water consumption.
posted by seamas on September 24, 2003 at 6:46 pm · filed under 
Premier Jim Bacon has said old-growth logging may continue in Tasmania up until 2010. The Wilderness Society claims the timeframe is an empty commitment, as resources will be exhausted by then anyway.
posted by seamas on September 24, 2003 at 9:00 am · filed under
A new corporate and government funded initiative has been launched in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. The $91 million Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre will help develop more self-sustaining remote economies.
posted by seamas on September 23, 2003 at 9:49 pm · filed under
Regional warming has caused a 3,000 old arctic ice shelf to break up. The event saw an entire freshwater lake drain into the sea.
posted by seamas on September 23, 2003 at 9:42 pm · filed under
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