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WA firms grip on booming battery market, as lithium refinery site selected

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 14:34
A site at Kwinana, south of Perth, has been earmarked for one of world's biggest lithium refineries.
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Invitation for written submissions: Exploring ways to improve farmer’s interaction with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Department of the Environment - Mon, 2018-05-07 14:22
Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.
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Invitation for written submissions: Exploring ways to improve farmer’s interaction with the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

Department of the Environment - Mon, 2018-05-07 14:22
Dr Craik invites written submissions from farmers and any interested stakeholders, comments are invited from Monday 7 May until Friday 15 June 2018.
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Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation Innovation grants now open

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 13:37
Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation has launched its Innovation Grants Round and will accept applications from not for profit organisations in Victoria.
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AMP forges new path by appointing climate denier as chairman

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 12:26
New chairman's views on climate change and climate scientists is a bad sign on how AMP will handle climate risk.
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Victoria wind and solar farms warned of curtailment

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 12:20
Owners and developers of new and existing wind and solar projects in Victoria warned of potential curtailment, network limits and increased marginal loss factors. Building renewables is becoming more complex.
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Genex appoints new CEO, new directors

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 11:52
Genex is pleased to announce the implementation of changes to its Board and management as part of a positive and planned process of board renewal, which is designed to keep the Board fresh and dynamic, as well as being suited to the Company’s current operational phase, post listing.
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The coffee cup which can be recycled in existing systems

BBC - Mon, 2018-05-07 09:56
A recyclable coffee cup could help replace the 2.5 billion disposable cups binned each year.
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JinkoSolar maintained its position as top solar PV module shipment provider in 2017, says GlobalData

RenewEconomy - Mon, 2018-05-07 08:49
The global solar PV module market was valued at $36.71bn in 2017 and is estimated to reach $26.4bn, in 2021, registering a negative compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8% between 2017 and 2021.
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Toxin linked to motor neuron disease found in Australian algal blooms

The Conversation - Mon, 2018-05-07 06:14
A toxic chemical produced by algae and linked to motor neuron disease has been detected in NSW rivers. Its presence - long suspected but now confirmed - could be linked to a disease hotspot in the Riverina. Brendan Main, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Impending blight: how Statoil's plans threaten the Great Australian Bight

The Guardian - Mon, 2018-05-07 04:00

Supporters say the oil firm has experience drilling in rough seas but conservationists fear damage to wildlife and fisheries

The cold and violent waters of the Great Australian Bight are home to one of the country’s most biodiverse and important marine ecosystems, the heart of its fishing industry, a growing tourism hotspot – and potentially its newest oil field.

Of the species in the bight, 85% are found nowhere else on the planet. It is a breeding ground for the endangered southern right whale and a feeding zone for Australian sea lions, great white sharks, migratory sperm whales and short-tailed shearwaters.

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Livia Firth: It’s not realistic to think we're going to be in a world without leather or wool

The Guardian - Mon, 2018-05-07 04:00

Environmental fashion campaigner visits Tasmania to learn about wool production, its impact on the environment and mulesing

Livia Firth still has the wool sweaters she wore as a teenager. The environmental fashion campaigner, who grew up in Italy, remembers hand washing her sweaters each summer, carefully storing them away, then unpacking them the following winter. She would wear them year after year so she had to look after them. This was before fast, disposable fashion she says, “We did it a different way.”

These days, as the founder of Eco-Age, a brand consultancy firm that works with luxury fashion labels on improving their sustainability credentials, and as someone who makes frequent appearances on the red carpet alongside her Oscar-winning husband actor Colin Firth, she has an expanded wardrobe – yet it’s probably not as big as you may imagine. In 2010 Firth came up with the Green Carpet Challenge, using her visibility in front of the world’s media to wear only ethical, sustainable and repurposed fashion, and she’s often photographed repeatedly wearing the same gowns as part of her #30wears pledge.

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Cracks in nuclear reactor threaten UK energy policy

The Guardian - Mon, 2018-05-07 00:49

Problems at Hunterston B in Scotland trigger doubts over six other 1970s and 80s plants

The government’s energy policy is under renewed pressure after the prolonged closure of one of Britain’s oldest nuclear reactors because of cracks in its graphite core raised questions over the future of six other plants built in the 1970s and 1980s.

The temporary shutdown of reactor three at Hunterston B in Scotland is also expected to burn an estimated £120m hole in the revenues of its owner, EDF Energy. The firm said this week that it was taking the reactor offline for six months after inspections revealed more cracks than expected.

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New law to tackle electric cars’ silent menace to pedestrians

The Guardian - Sun, 2018-05-06 18:00

Sound emitters will give warning of vehicles travelling at low speeds

They are green, clean and make very little noise. It is this latter quality, initially seen by many as a good thing, that has become an acute concern for safety campaigners, who fear that the rising number of electric vehicles constitutes a silent menace.

When they travel at under 20mph the vehicles can barely be heard, especially by cyclists or pedestrians listening to music through headphones. “The greatest risks associated with electric vehicles are when they are travelling at low speeds, such as in urban areas with lower limits, as the noise from tyres and the road surface, and aerodynamic noise, are minimal at those speeds,” said Kevin Clinton, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

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English Heritage plans to restore ‘great lost garden’ of Alexander Pope

The Guardian - Sun, 2018-05-06 15:00
Project to recreate poet’s London estate accused of subverting history by opponents, who say elaborate grounds may never have existed

The restoration, even at huge cost, of what English Heritage calls one of “the great lost gardens of London” sounds a worthwhile, even noble, project. But what if that “lost garden” is a myth, a pipe dream never really built? English Heritage plans to transform the estate of Marble Hill, a grand house by the Thames, by reintroducing elaborate gardens it says were inspired by Alexander Pope, the satirist and poet, and 18th-century royal garden designer Charles Bridgeman.

The original designs featured a ninepin bowling alley, an ice-house seat and a flower garden, surrounded by twisting paths and groves of trees and English Heritage plans to recreate all this, alongside a “vibrant” cafe and children’s play area.

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'Soul destroying'

BBC - Sun, 2018-05-06 10:40
The eco-friendly hobbyists trying to stem the rising tide of plastic in the seas.
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'Soul destroying'

BBC - Sun, 2018-05-06 10:40
The eco-friendly hobbyists trying to stem the rising tide of plastic in the seas.
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With nature against climate change

ABC Environment - Sun, 2018-05-06 10:30
Nature Based Solutions is an environmental approach that seeks to counter the negative effects of climate change by working with nature.
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Best laid plans: The Murray-Darling Basin in crisis (Part 2)

ABC Environment - Sun, 2018-05-06 08:05
The Federal Senate is due to vote on major changes to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan– if it passes, it will effectively end further water recovery for the environment in the river system. The Basin States claim we can stop water recovery now, because they have 36 engineering projects throughout the Basin which can achieve similar outcomes. But critics hotly dispute that. In part two of our investigation into the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, reporter Sarah Dingle reveals the politicking going on behind the scenes for Australia's most expensive environmental program.
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Clean coal?

ABC Environment - Sun, 2018-05-06 07:45
Truly clean coal technology is not a myth, argues University of Newcastle chemical engineering researcher Dr Jessica Allen.
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