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Comment – Charles Pauka After spending $1.5 million on its latest report on Wilton, which comprehensively dismisses the location as unsuitable for a large international airport, federal infrastructure and transport minister Anthony Albanese has responded swiftly – by announcing yet another report into Wilton, at an undetermined cost. There have been more than 20 reports [...]
Coca Cola Amatil (CCA) has attacked the Northern Territory’s cash-for-containers recycling scheme, saying it’s old fashioned and inefficient, and will increase the price of soft drinks. CCA chairman David Gonski said the company’s own scheme will be much more effective and cost less. Mr Gonski said at the company’s annual general meeting in Sydney on [...]
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Virgin Australia, Brisbane Airport Corporation and sustainable jet fuel company SkyNRG have announced a feasibility study into the creation of Australia’s first ‘bio-port’ at Brisbane Airport. The three parties have agreed to enter a memorandum of understanding that will see them work together towards the ultimate goal of enabling aircraft to be fuelled with sustainable [...]
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EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2013 includes a case in which net imports of liquid fuels are eliminated by 2035 under inherently speculative assumptions.
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High-Speed Rail (HSR) connecting the east coast capital cities “has the potential to be a game-changer, transforming the way Australians live, work and take holidays,” said Federal Transport Minister Anthony Albanese, but it wouldn’t be ready for another 50 years. “It also has the capacity to better integrate our regional and metropolitan communities, ease congestion [...]
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Australians are being urged to help set a new world record for the most e-waste collected for recycling between 20 and 28 April 2013 to tackle what is thought to be the nation’s fastest growing waste problem. TechCollect, a new recycling program for old computers, printers and televisions, is driving this free recycling initiative to [...]
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued a final decision to authorise a national Tyre Stewardship Scheme for five years. The aim of the scheme is to reduce the amount of used tyres entering landfill, being illegally dumped or exported overseas. The Australian Tyre Industry Council (ATIC) applied for authorisation of the proposed scheme, [...]
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The government should make an election commitment not to extend the carbon tax to trucking, the chairman of the Australian Trucking Association David Simon said in a televised address at the National Press Club. “In its Clean Energy Package, the government announced that the fuel used by the trucking industry would not be subject to [...]
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Australia’s $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically improve the re-establishment of native woodlands. The initiative brings science and industry together to develop products that meet emerging global needs [...]
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Logistics company DHL will open some South Australian Drop Zones seven days a week between 8am and 4pm to help South Australians preparing for the digital switch on 2 April. DHL Supply Chain’s five South Australian drop zones based in Heathfield, Pookara, Lonsdale and Beverly are open 7 days a week to assist those wanting [...]
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