The News Review:
- Tasmania pulp mill decision expected next week
- Transcript – Episode 33
- Clean targets lift wind farms
Tasmania pulp mill decision expected next week
The Age – Sep 29, 2007
Mr Turnbull said from Washington where he attended GeorgeBush’s meeting on climate change that the Government was workinghard with the chief scientist who has just reported on the milland with the stakeholders. “I’m certainly spending a lot of time on it here from Washingtonwhen I’m not in the climate change meeting” he told the ABC. “Andthere is a large team of people from my department together withthe chief scientist and his panel working furiously inCanberra. To make an unfettered decision the Government must act beforethe election caretaker period.
Transcript – Episode 33
ABC Regional nline – ABC Regional nline – Sep 29, 2007
Angus Stewart visits a garden set on 2 hectares in Galston NSW which has been transformed over 30 years from a weed infested block into an extraordinary botanic-like garden boasting a unique range of plants. PETER CUNDALL: I’ve always been fascinated by the bark of a very old tree because it’s so beautiful. This is an old plane tree and it’s in the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. I’m going to come back here shortly and you’ll be amazed about what I’m going to show you but that’s what this program is all about – it’s about plants and the marvellous things you can do in a garden. This week it’s pest control without toxic sprays and Sophie gets involved in biological control; and to a labour of love an extraordinary private botanic garden and Angus can’t keep away. I have to admit that when I first saw this unbelievably boring building I was mystified.
Clean targets lift wind farms
The Australian – Sep 29, 2007
Tasmanian-based Roaring 40s yesterday said it would reverse last year’s decision to suspend operations in Australia — in favour of building wind farms in China — because of a lack of regulatory support. Roaring 40s told The Weekend Australian it would now invest almost $600 million in two wind farm projects next year in Tasmania and South Australia. This would create about 300 jobs for both areas as well as providing a supplementary income to Australia’s drought-ridden farms which can lease some of their land to the wind farm operators. Companies such as Babcock & Brown Wind Partners and Pacific Hydro now predict the wind farm industry will become a $16 billion industry in the next few years following the Howard Government’s decision this week to lift the nation’s "clean energy target" to 15 per cent of all energy by 2020. Until now the industry has been floundering as it tried to convince a sceptical investment community of the merits of wind power in Australia particularly given its cost disadvantage compared to coal-fired power.