THE QUEENSLAND Resources Council (QRC) has awarded Sandra Collins the Resources Award for Women (RAW) for her efforts to change legislation that prevented women from working in underground mines.
12/03/2009
ENERGY Developments and Envirogen have joined forces in a bid to gain renewable energy classification after the Rudd Government’s proposed legislation was delayed.
23/06/2009
BUSINESS and corporate advisory group BDO Kendalls says that many coal mining companies are unaware of a legislative time bomb that could cost businesses up to $200,000.
04/08/2009
THE QUEENSLAND Parliament has passed a new legislation to fast track the development of greenhouse gas storage in the state.
17/02/2009
FOR months now, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has told the public that it would be reckless and irresponsible for the Australian economy and environment to delay the introduction of an emissions trading scheme (ETS).
08/05/2009
A FARMER making a stand against coal mining on his land on the Liverpool Plains in NSW has taken his battle to Parliament House.
29/10/2008
PREMIER Anna Bligh has been handed a plate of coal to wash down with polluted water as part of protests by farmers on the Darling Downs.
04/11/2008
FORMER ACTU secretary and coal miner Greg Combet has been given the new job of parliamentary secretary for climate change.
26/02/2009
PLANS for the controversial Haystack Plain coal mine plan could be scrapped if it can be shown it would interfere with flows into the Murray Darling Basin, Queensland.
05/03/2009
AUSTRALIAN coal miners could be able to penetrate the heavily regulated Indian coal industry through the use of longwall technologies the country does not have access to.
11/03/2009
THE NORTHERN Territory Resources Council say new industrial relation laws will slow down mining development in the NT even further.
23/03/2009
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
MCDONALD & Company, a specialist in human resource management for the mining industry, has held a forum which aims to protect the jobs of hundreds of expatriate mine workers affected by recent tax changes.
31/07/2009
IN 1985 a Gladstone woman, Sandra Collins fought for and gained an exemption from NSW legislation that prevented women from working underground.
16/04/2009
A GROUP of Queensland farmers have taken their campaign to stop mining on their land to another level by broadcasting their concerns on the world-wide-web.
17/10/2008
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
FEDERAL Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson says the Australian Government will announce an off-shore carbon capture acreage by the end of the week ending 27 March 2009.
25/03/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association executive director Ralph Hillman claims that the Australian Government will cripple the coal industry by excluding coal mining from the Energy-Intensive Trade-Exposed class.
01/05/2009
FEDERAL Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong says that the delays to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) are not in Australia’s interest.
07/05/2009
An expansion of a coal mine north of Wollongong has been granted approval after appeals against it have been dismissed in the Land and Environment Court.
13/01/2010