BY: Bob Hill Any day now the Federal government’s committee is expected to bring down its recommendations concerning the Renewable Energy Target (RET) – its very carefully chosen committee, including climate sceptics and opponents of government support for renewable energy, No guessing what it will recommend! A recent study commissioned by the Climate Institute and…
Media Release: 19th August 2014 Bathurst Community Climate Action Network supports the call for a no coal seam gas policy for Bathurst Regional Council. Councillors should represent the community’s concerns over the extraction of coal seam gas, said Tracey Carpenter, President of BCCAN. Farmers, environmentalists are united in their opposition to further expansion of the…
Last night’s 4Corners report “Battle for the Reef” is likely to be of interest to BCCAN members. In January, the body tasked with protecting the Great Barrier Reef approved a plan to dump three million cubic metres of dredge spoil inside the marine park to expand the Abbot Point coal port. The decision by the…
Ethinvest’s “Shareholder Advocacy 2013-2014” report. “In 2013 and 2014 Ethinvest continued to build momentum on a range of initiatives to improve the environmental and social performance of Australian listed companies.” Includes: BHP Billiton, Climate Change & Ian Dunlop “In my view, the greatest challenge the world, and BHP Billiton, now faces is global warming caused…
Australia’s highest profile medics and health experts have penned an open letter to our Prime Minister appealing to him to reinstate climate change onto the agenda for the G20 meeting in Brisbane later this year. The likes of Peter Doherty, Gustav Nossal and Fiona Stanley have warned of serious health consequences as a result of climate change…
With all the talk about renewable energy around this week you’d get the feeling that there might be a bit of a revolution underway. The NSW Government tells us this week it wants the renewable energy industry to take off. But given what is being put in place one wonders if there might just be…
Repeal of the carbon tax is a big mistake, which will destroy the central feature of Australia’s climate policy and lead to continuing uncertainty for business and policy-makers. We have gone from being a leader to laggard, from ‘lifter’ to ‘leaner’ on climate policy. We have gone from having one of the best climate schemes…
Our Prime Minister has been like an obnoxious kid in a supermarket constantly nagging for chips & soft drink. His parent knows it’s not healthy and to give in is not in the interests of the child. The only way you can shut the brat up though is by giving in and hoping that there…
In its first budget announced recently (this week), India’s Modi government “announced funding for a series of “ultra mega” solar PV farms to be located in four Indian deserts, Thar in Rajasthan, Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, Lahul & Spiti in Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh in Jammu & Kashmir.” If India is able to build…
Repealing the carbon price is an act of policy vandalism, according to central west climate action group, Bathurst Community Climate Action Network (BCCAN). The group says the Abbott government is being fiscally irresponsible, economically stupid and showing dreadful ignorance about what is needed for effective climate policy. BCCAN President Tracey Carpenter says the repeal of…