Now that the CPRS shemozzle has passed it's time to Walk Against Warming
Saturday, 12 December @ 12pm
Parliament House, Canberra, can be a strange place at the best of times. I’ve probably spent about 2 months of my life in the building, meeting with politicians, advisors and bureaucrats, trying to achieve some progress on climate change- the issue that needs a little less conversation and a lot more action.
Published: Wed, 02/12/2009 - 15:49 by Mark
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Let's be honest...
It's going to cost money. Get used to it.
Part of what we do here at Environment Victoria is meet with politicians, their advisors and government bureaucrats.
It’s how we atone for our sins.
Published: Fri, 28/08/2009 - 15:00 by Mark
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- Change the system
- Water and Healthy rivers
- Safe climate
- Smart stuff-less waste
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- Share
- 2010 election
- Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme
- Coal is for dinosaurs
- Community action plan
- Gippsland sustainable water strategy
- Go Yarra Flow
- Green Jobs
- Halving our emissions
- REBORN campaign
- Smart transport
- Walk Against Warming
- Water Futures
- Dark Green
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- Skeptic
- Melbourne
- North-east Victoria
- South-east Victoria
- West Victoria
- North-west Victoria
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Baillieu Government
Takes two big backwards steps on climate action
This week has not been a good week for the climate in Victorian politics.
Published: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 12:06 by Mark
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Getting closure
on dirty power
Last Friday the federal government called for expressions of interest to retire up to 2000MW of coal generation by 2020. The call comes as part of the government’s "Contract for Closure" program, negotiated as part of the carbon pricing package.
Published: Mon, 10/10/2011 - 12:32 by Mark
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It's official.
The Baillieu Government has now made it harder to build a wind farm than a new coal mine or coal-fired power station in Victoria.
New planning regulations gazetted yesterday disallow new wind farms in whole regions of the state, and allow a single landholder to block a wind farm if they live within 2 kilometres of a proposal.
Published: Tue, 30/08/2011 - 12:33 by Mark
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The amazing case
of the disappearing climate policy
Long before photoshop, in post-World War 2 Soviet Union Joseph Stalin had an interesting and macabre habit. When one of his Ministers or apparatchiks fell out of favour with him, he would have them disappeared.
As well as being sent to the Gulag, all traces of them would be removed from historical records and photographs. Official photos would have heads removed and replaced with the Premier Stalin’s newest political disciples.
Published: Thu, 30/06/2011 - 15:23 by Mark
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Welcome increase
to Victoria’s energy efficiency
Environment Victoria welcomes the recent decision by the Baillieu Government to double Victoria’s successful Energy Efficiency Target (VEET) and extend the scheme to small and medium enterprises.
We were notified this week in a letter from the Department of Primary Industries that the target would be doubled to 5.4 million tonnes of CO2e abatement and Regulations would fix the target for the period 2012-2014.
Published: Thu, 09/06/2011 - 12:26 by Mark
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Playing favourites
with Victoria's energy future
Environment Victoria today released a map of the proposed HRL Dual gas coal-fired power station which shows hundreds of houses within a two kilometre radius of the power station.
Published: Wed, 25/05/2011 - 12:44 by Mark
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Coalition missing in action
from big decisions about Victoria’s energy future
At 4 pm yesterday, at a time when half the nation’s journalists were in Federal budget lock-ups, the State Coalition quietly announced that they’ve stopped negotiations with International Power to secure the partial closure of Hazelwood power station.
Published: Wed, 11/05/2011 - 17:29 by Mark
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Clean money for dirty coal
Mark Wakeham in the Climate Spectator
There are two debates swirling around a price on pollution in Australia. First there’s the vitriolic tug of war between the public interest and big polluters, fanned by Tony Abbott and certain shock jocks who will stop at nothing in using the ‘carbon tax’ to damage the Gillard government.
Published: Thu, 21/04/2011 - 12:13 by Mark
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