THE CARBON Reduction & Trading Expo will be held between 31 March and 2 April 2009 at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre to assist businesses reduce carbon emissions.
25/03/2009
SANTOS has announced its will be reviewing its Moomba carbon storage project.
06/03/2009
THE BRUMBY Government says that it is disappointing that opposition parties are failing to act in the national interest and support the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
14/08/2009
ENERGY and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor has called on Malcolm Turnbull to get out of the way of the Federal Government’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
01/05/2009
LOY Yang Power has signed a memorandum of understanding with MBD Energy to potentially use algae-based technology to reduce the emissions of a brown-coal power station.
15/05/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association (ACA) says that the coal industry wants to be treated the same as other big polluters under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
03/08/2009
THE Queensland Resources Council (QRC) says predictions that the Australian coal export industry will collapse under a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) are “misplaced”.
03/11/2008
RECENTLY many mining and mineral processing companies have become more vocal against the looming emissions trading scheme (ETS).
30/09/2009
THE NSW Minerals Council is holding a two-day conference at the Novotel Northbeach, Wollongong to discuss the impact of the planned Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
15/09/2009
THE MINERALS Council of Australia’s National Conference on 28 May 2009 was picketed by Canberra residents.
05/06/2009
FEDERAL Climate Change Minister, Penny Wong says that the delays to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) are not in Australia’s interest.
07/05/2009
THE Federal Government and the Opposition last night agreed to several amendments to the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), including a doubling of assistance to the coal industry.
25/11/2009
PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Climate Change, Greg Combet has met with senior coal industry chiefs in Rochampton, Queensland in an effort to gain support for the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
20/05/2009
The CONSTRUCTION Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) spoke about the Australian Coal Association’s (ACA) attempts to convince the public that the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will put jobs at risk.
14/10/2009
FURTHER contradictions surrounding climate change and the coal sector have revived debate over Kevin Rudd’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
24/09/2009
QUEENSLAND Resources Council Chief Executive Michael Roche has delivered a major speech to a coal and energy conference in Brisbane.
16/07/2009
MAJOR miners have employed lobbyists in their campaign to overhaul the Federal Government's climate change policy.
10/03/2009
PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Climate Change Greg Combet says that coal mining companies are in line for $750 million in compensation under Labor's scheme but are not going to receive additional assistance.
18/05/2009
MODELLING by Concept Economics for the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) shows that the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will result in the loss of thousands of jobs in key regional centres of Queensland.
22/05/2009
The Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has attacked the coal industry’s campaign that suggests it will be devastated by the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
09/11/2009