Whose interests are really being served by the party you vote for? Is it local people and businesses, schools and hospitals, farms and local producers? Maybe the best way to answer that question is to look at water, our most valuable resource. And whilst the people of our towns are paying more and more for…
BY: Tracey Carpenter Potentially another blow to the local coal industry came this week when, India’s Energy Minister, Piyush Goyal announced an ambitious target that could see India cease thermal coal imports within two to three years. After China recently announced a major city ban on coal followed by a coal tariff on imports, the…
BY: Tracey Carpenter It’s Time” – the slogan that ushered in Gough Whitlam’s nation building government was rekindled last week but not only in relation to the great Australian passing. Echoing Whitlam’s call to reform last week Secretary General Ban Ki Moon urged that “Leaders must act. Time is not on our side”. He was…
Scientists at New York University have published their analysis that “Genetically modified organisms represent a public risk of global harm.” In an (arguably well-overdue) holistic, systems approach to the issue of GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms), the team at NYU point out that “Bottom-up modifications1 do not remove the crops from their long term evolutionary context,…
BY: Tracy Sorensen Goodbye fossil fuels. It was an exciting ride. You gave us so much. But here’s your gold watch and a card signed by all of us. The farewell party for fossil fuels isn’t here yet, but it’s coming. According energy expert Craig Memery, the fossil fuel industry is already on its way…
The markets are held on the fourth Saturday of each month from January to November and on the third Saturday of December. Gates are open to the public from 8 am to 12 noon. The markets are situated at the historic Bathurst Showground and surrounds (for directions see the map in our Contact Page). What?…
BY: Tracey Carpenter This week is the anniversary of superstorms Sandy in the US and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines; a sobering reminder of the devastating consequences of climate change. Meanwhile, at home, the Australian parliament chose this week to take yet another step backwards on the global challenge of tackling the not-so-small problem that…
Community Energy groups who are thinking or planning to install community solar energy systems face a barrage of changing dynamics such as the latest RET status; regulatory changes; reductions in the costs of solar panels and inverters; new creative financing approaches and other matters. Nonetheless, going by recent media reports, it seems there are new…
BY: Tracey Carpenter How can we can get the energy we need in regional communities – without it costing the earth? Craig Memery of the Alternative Technology Association has the answers and will be guest speaker at BCCAN’s annual general meeting on Wednesday 29th October from 6pm at the Flannery Centre. Craig Memery offers the latest…
BY: Tracey Carpenter Our Prime Minister regularly ‘shirt fronts’ the renewable energy side in the high stakes energy championships being played out right across this vast, resource rich playing field of a land. Visibly excited by the macho and machines of yet another new coal mine the Prime Minister declared his devotion to an Australian…