Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Transport, Wind Power, fuel crisis on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week.
If we are to make this law a reality and give the Australian renewable energy sector the best possible support that it will need in [...]
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Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power on June 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Very pleased to announce that the Private Member’s Bill for a comprehensive national feed-in law for renewable energy that Christine introduced last month has been successfully referred to the Senate Environment Committee for a formal Inquiry.
What this means is that, after the debacle of the Budget, there is now the opportunity for a detailed public [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Drought, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Industrial Relations, Logging, Marine, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Web 2.0, Welfare, Wind Power, YouTube on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has taken a while, but we finally have Christine’s Budget Reply Speech up on YouTube and postable to the blog. Those of you who have enjoyed reading or listening to it may be interested in watching it.
In five parts.
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Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Web 2.0, Wind Power on May 21, 2008 | 22 Comments »
ABC Online kindly published this piece of mine today here. It’s very encouraging to see the overwhelmingly positive comments thread thus far.
Martin Ferguson, let the cat out of the bag shortly after the Budget, when he said that carbon capture and storage would be “essential for the long-term sustainability of coal-fired power generation.” With those [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Disability, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Logging, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Welfare, Wind Power on May 16, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Instead of replying to the details of the Rudd-Swan Budget, I decided this year to use their backward-looking, future-phobic presentation as the launching pad for a broader discussion of what we might do if we had a Government with the vision and guts necessary to take on the twin challenges of climate change and peak [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power, YouTube on May 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Against the backdrop of several appalling Rudd Government Budget decisions that will undermine the renewables industry in Australia even further (some of which are detailed here), Christine Milne introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Senate this morning to establish an comprehensive national feed-in law.
Feed-in laws support the rapid and unlimited growth of the renewables [...]
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For some time, we’ve been hearing persistent reports of deeper and deeper gloom pervading meetings and conferences around Australia and the world on geosequestration - so-called ‘clean coal’ technology, or carbon capture and storage. The research, which receives the lions share of government energy funding, just hasn’t been making progress. Years down the track, we [...]
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Posted in Election 07, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power, YouTube, tagged australia, electricity, Energy, ludlam, policy, scott, western on November 12, 2007 | 21 Comments »
Scott Ludlam, our lead senate candidate in Western Australia, today launched a detailed plan to climate-proof the Western Australian electricity sector.
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Posted in Climate change, Coal, Drought, Election 07, Energy, Greens, Renewable energy, Solar Thermal, Water, Wind Power on November 12, 2007 | 20 Comments »
This morning, I joined Bob Brown and our ACT Senate candidate, Kerrie Tucker, down at the ANU’s Big Dish to launch a new policy that we are quite excited about – Farming Renewable Energy.
We’ve noticed that whenever we raise this as a concept it garners a particularly positive response, so we developed it into a [...]
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At Bob’s press club speech last week there was a question about the feasibility of achieving a Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) of 15% by 2012.
Here is a quick analysis of the numbers. 15% translates to about 42,000 gigawatt hours (GWh). That’s because ABARE projects electricity production in 2010 to be about 281,000 GWh (1012PJ), [...]
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