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 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
CFMEU national president Tony Maher says that coal miners need an emissions trading scheme to go ahead, and believes that the industry should stop its "scare campaign''.
15/05/2009
QUEENSLAND Premier Anna Bligh has written to the Commonwealth requesting extra assistance for coal mines in her state.
16/07/2009
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
AUSTRALIA has the ability to slash greenhouse gas emissions, but ‘clean coal’ technology is a must, a recent report says.
11/08/2008
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
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
THE Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is calling on the Australian government to charge more for coal to reduce greenhouse emissions.
23/10/2008
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
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
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
CLEAN coal technology has by passed Australia and would probably never work, Opposition emissions trading spokesperson Ian Macfarlane has said.
12/11/2009
THE MAYORS of Australia’s largest mining cities, Newcastle, Gladstone and Mount Isa have urged the Federal Government to delay the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
23/03/2009
RECENTLY many mining and mineral processing companies have become more vocal against the looming emissions trading scheme (ETS).
30/09/2009
THE COAL industry is unlikely to suffer under an emissions trading scheme, trade unions say.
08/09/2008
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
THE FEDERAL Government has announced that it will delay the introduction of its emissions trading scheme (ETS) by one year.
05/05/2009
NEW Hope says that it hopes the Federal Government uses the delay to the emissions trading scheme (ETS) to improve the system.
06/05/2009