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…
BY: Tracy Sorensen When I was a kid, we sang these words: The bear went over the mountain, the bear went over the mountain. And what do you think he saw? The other side of the mountain! This week, it’s all about the car race up on Mount Panorama. This is the image that will…
BY: Robert Robergs The World Condemns Australia’s Stance and Contributions to Global Pollution and Climate Change On September 23, 2014, the United Nations Secretary General’s Climate Change Summit was held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Australia was represented by Julie Bishop, our Minister for Foreign Affairs, who addressed the summit and…
BY: Tracey Carpenter The battle over Australia’s energy future played out in the tiny town of Cullen Bullen to the north of Bathurst this week at the Coalpac mine extension public meeting. Residents and environment groups opposed extension of the open cut mine into the Gardens of Stone pagoda country. Some spoke of ill health…
A new report details the subsidies and financial assistance given to mining and fossil fuel industries: …it might surprise taxpayers to learn that state government assistance for the mineral and fossil fuel industries consumes significant amounts of their money. Each state provides millions of dollars’ worth of assistance to mining industries every year, with the…
If we had abundant solar and wind powered electricity (by keeping the RET), how many industries (and homes) could do without gas? The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that: “… besides the upward pressure on (gas) prices arising from the shift towards export parity pricing (Gladstone LNG), the public is being hoodwinked by industry on access…
BCCAN has produced a 3-fold pamphlet explaining some of the benefits of the Renewable Energy Target. Please download, print and distribute in the Orange/Bathurst region. As per the front of the pamphlet: The RET (Renewable Energy Target) does NOT cost taxpayers anything!1,2 yet because of it the solar industry now in 2012 employed more Australians…
The Abbott government’s misinformation surrounding the RET is plain to see in this article from RenewEconomy. RenewEconomy, In an interview with Radio 3AW on Friday, it was put to Hunt that supporting the recommendation of the RET Review panel to cut the target to 25,000GWH from around 41,000GWh would amount to a broken election promise…
Our technological advance across time is truly awesome. Our creativity and intelligence has taken us from walking on barefoot to flying in jet aeroplanes and projecting our ideas around the planet via satellite. But nonetheless we seem unable to realise that this is an inevitable progression. Our problem is that we can’t visualise the changes…
Bathurst Community Climate Action Network will join the March in Bathurst this Sunday calling on Member for Calare to defend the Renewable Energy Target (RET). “Abandoning the renewable energy target would finish a $20 billion industry, cost thousands of jobs, and force household and business power bills to increase. Losing the RET would make Australia…