THE CARBON Reduction & Trading Expo will be held between 31 March and 2 April 2009 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre to assist businesses reduce carbon emissions.
25/03/2009
THE federal government is considering a a report warning the Commonwealth’s planned carbon emission trading scheme (CETS) will force a third of Australian companies to go under.
26/08/2008
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has written to the Commonwealth requesting extra assistance for coal mines in her state.
16/07/2009
CONFUSION among coal miners is mounting with the Federal Government’s sudden abandonment of its own inquiry into emissions trading scheme (ETS).
20/02/2009
THE NSW Minerals Council is holding a two-day conference at the Novotel Northbeach, Wollongong to discuss the impact of the planned Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
15/09/2009
CLEAN coal technology has by passed Australia and would probably never work, Opposition emissions trading spokesperson Ian Macfarlane has said.
12/11/2009
SANTOS says that Australia should simply turn to gas rather than risky technologies such as carbon capture and storage (CCS) in its bid to reduce emissions.
01/06/2009
THE COAL industry is unlikely to suffer under an emissions trading scheme, trade unions say.
08/09/2008
THE CSIRO has made a submission to the Government’s energy review which claims that price caps in a carbon market may stifle investment in renewable technologies and threaten Australia’s power supply.
04/08/2009
MALCOM Turnbull claimed that the idea that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would call carbon pollution is completely absurd in an address to the Hunter Business Chamber, Newcastle.
04/09/2009
PLANTATION Energy Australia has announced the signing of a three-year $60 million supply agreement with Essent Trading.
26/05/2009
THE US Environmental Protection Agency has announced that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a health risk which could affect emissions trading worldwide.
21/04/2009
MAJOR clean coal projects in Queensland will fail unless the Federal Government changes its emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to the opposition environment spokesman.
19/01/2009
RIO Tinto chief executive, Tom Albanese, has told the mining industry he is doubtful a global agreement can be reached on climate change.
03/10/2008
A POWER generation firm is calling on the government to include waste coal mine gas generation to soften the impact of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to hit Australia by 2010.
10/12/2008
AUSTRALIAN Coal Association (ACA) Executive Director Ralph Hillman presented at the Central Queensland Carbon Forum in Gladstone on 8 October 2009.
08/10/2009
XSTRATA has released figures to the government and the opposition on the amount of workers which will be sacked should the government’s proposed emissions trading scheme take effect.
17/03/2009
XSTRATA says it did not give permission for data revealing that the company would have to sack 1000 coal miners if the emissions trading scheme is implemented to be released publicly.
19/03/2009
PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Climate Change, Greg Combet has met with senior coal industry chiefs in Rochampton, Queensland in an effort to gain support for the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
20/05/2009
MORE than $1.5bn in compensation may be dished out to black coal mining in the first year of emissions trading, according to a new analysis.
21/10/2008