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Woolnorth wind farms set to receive weather guidance from MetraWeather Australia
Woolnorth owns and operates three wind farms leveraging Tasmania’s world class wind resources to generate approximately 9 percent of Tasmania’s electricity needs.
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Whatever the Weather: inside the Bureau of Meteorology
Whatever the Weather: inside the Bureau of Meteorology
Going plastic-free with kids: Tips to reduce your dependence
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Don't blame wildfires on climate change – it's environmentalists' fault, says Zinke
US interior secretary Ryan Zinke blames environmentalists for the devastation in California and calls for an increase in logging
The US interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, has blamed environmentalists for California’s ferocious wildfires and claimed, contrary to scientific research, that climate change had “nothing to do” with them. Instead, he said the fires were worsened because of limits on logging.
“America is better than letting these radical groups control the dialogue about climate change,” Zinke told KCRA, a TV station in northern California, on Sunday. “Extreme environmentalists have shut down public access. They talk about habitat and yet they are willing to burn it up.”
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Protracted renewal of German EUA auction platform to leave gap in sales
CSIRO unaware of $444m reef grant before announcement
Staff at government scientific agency will likely be seconded to help administer funds, documents show
The CSIRO was not aware a $443.8 m grant would be offered to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and staff at the agency are likely to be seconded to the charity to help administer the funds, according to documents tabled in the Senate.
The documents, tabled on Monday, show the agency “didn’t have visibility” before the government announced the grant on 29 April, with correspondence from senior staff noting the prime minister’s office appeared to be involved.
Continue reading...Dirty coal: health fears of a town covered in dust from disused power station
Senate inquiry to visit Port Augusta to investigate mistakes made after the closure of the Northern power plant
For the residents living near the site of South Australia’s demolished coal-fired power plant, the coming months could be their third straight summer of dust.
A flawed rehabilitation of an ash dam has led to potentially hazardous particles being blown across Port Augusta and its 14,000 residents for the last two years.
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