ABC News
The New South Wales Government has announced that new environmental flows will be released into the Snowy River this week in a bid to aid river ecosystems and improve overall water quality.
posted by seamas on January 25, 2010 at 7:54 am · filed under 
The Wilderness Society
Environment groups have labelled the trip to Japan by Resources Minister David Llewelyn with Gunns boss John Gay and Forestry Tasmania boss Bob Gordon a mercy dash aimed at looking after Gunns’ interests by attempting to keep native forest woodchipping alive in Tasmania. This trip follows the December 2009 media reports that Japanese companies were demanding Tasmania provide them with Forest Stewardship Council-accredited woodchips — not woodchips from high-conservation-value native forests.
posted by ruby on January 22, 2010 at 2:49 pm · filed under 
The Greens
Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown has said that an effective system to deliver a safe climate must be part of any future tax system for Australia. Yesterday the Greens proposed an interim scheme including a two year $20 carbon price and $5 billion for households assistance to invest in renewable energy and energy efficiency to break the Senate deadlock on real climate action. “A truly fair and sustainable tax system cannot include massive tax breaks and incentives to big polluters in favour of real action to address climate change,” Senator Brown said.
posted by ruby on January 22, 2010 at 2:34 pm · filed under 
The Age
In a recent submission to the Federal Government, the European Union (EU) questions research commissioned by the Government into the need to establish laws blocking illegal timber imports to Australia. The research found that a strict ban would be costly, and warned against Australia acting unilaterally. The EU submission stated that the research vastly overestimates costs and reminded the Government that ”not only the EU and US but many other countries are developing measures to deal with illegally harvested timber.”
posted by ruby on January 20, 2010 at 1:08 pm · filed under
The Greens
The Greens have welcomed the deicision to release 148 gigalitres of water from NSW to the lower Murray River and Lower Lakes, but are accusing the Federal Government of doing little to solve the conflict between states over how much water would be released to the bottom end of the river. In a media release, Senator Hanson Young has said that “Kevin Rudd must establish - as soon as possible - a national independent authority with the powers to make decisions in the best interests of the river, regardless of state vetos.”
posted by ruby on January 20, 2010 at 1:00 pm · filed under
Minister for Climate Change and Water
Climate change is expected to reduce both rainfall and runoff in Tasmania by 2030, a report into Tasmania’s future water availability has found. The CSIRO Tasmania Sustainable Yields report is one of a series of reports commissioned by the Australian Federeal Government. Of the 150 key ecological sites identified in the project, 71 will potentially be impacted by changes in the flow regime due to the recent climate and its significant drought conditions.
posted by ruby on January 20, 2010 at 12:46 pm · filed under
BBC News
A plan to have a central nuclear stockpile overseen by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), originally formulated by President Eisenhower following WW2, has been revived. Under the plan, stockpiles are created for developing countries planning to use nuclear power in the near future to divert them from Iran’s path and the possibility they might enrich their own uranium. Adhering to IAEA regulations, nuclear fuel supplies are guaranteed regardless of the applicant country’s politics or human rights record.
posted by ruby on January 18, 2010 at 1:05 pm · filed under 
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