Posted by: sustainadelic
on 24 Jun, 2011
The Tasmanian forestry industry stands on the verge of a historic deal. The question is, can it, and its estwhile green adverseries, get the thing over the line?
Posted by: sustainadelic
on 14 Jun, 2011
Leading environmentalist Bill McKibben talks ahead of the coming Moving Planet event later this year.
Posted by: sustainadelic
on 12 Jun, 2011
If it flows, dam it. I've blogged previously about huge dam projects in the Amazon and Tibet, and Chile's plans for a dam in pristine Patagonia is also attracting fierce criticism from environmentalists. But Turkey's plans to harness "100 per cent" of its hydro-electricity potential by building 4000 dams in the next 12 years are breathtaking even by those standards.
Turkey has one of the world's fastest growing economies. Largely as a result, the country is hungry for energy. Currently it depends heavily on Iranian and Russian natural gas and the re-elected liberal-leaning government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan is keen to develop a degree of energy independence.
Laws are being drafted allowing hydroelectricity schemes to proceed even in nature reserves. And each hydro scheme will be allowed to take 90 per cent of the water out of a section of river, leaving the remaining 10 per cent as "lifeline support".
They should come to Australia and study the Murray-Darling first to see what happens when you do that to a river.
Read more in this report.
Posted by: sustainadelic
on 12 Jun, 2011
The Productivity Commission has backed a price on carbon as the best way to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. The Commission dismissed direct action approaches as inefficient.
