Here I am with the latest news again. It seems that the Aussies are really playing all their cards to get cleaner coal through carbon capture and storage. Their recent A$100 million plan is topping all carbon news so that’s what I am going to begin with:
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Reuters
Australia will set up a A$100 million ($80 mln) carbon capture research institute aimed at fighting climate shift and with ambitions of …
guardian.co.uk
Tumbling factory output following an economic slowdown will not be enough to curb rising industrial carbon …
guardian.co.uk
There has been a 150% increase in the volumes of carbon trading on the European Climate Exchange in the first six months of the year and its boss predicted …
Reuters
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said on Friday that his province, which has been riding a …
Asia
Machinist.in, India
“Showing the historical emission of carbon from the period 1850 ” 2000, US leads with 30%, the EU-25 with 27.2%, China with 7.3% and India accounts for only …
Australasia
Angus Reid Global Monitor
The majority of people in Australia agree with a government-proposed scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, according to a …
Gladstone Observer
THERE’S no doubt the Flynn electorate will feel the impact of the proposed emissions trading scheme and now residents and local industry will have the …
Canada
Orillia Packet & Times
Stephane Dion’s Green Shift plan is wildly unpopular in northern and rural Ontario, says Howard Hampton. It could prove so disastrous for the Liberals, …
Vancouver Sun
When municipal leaders from across the province gather next week for their annual convention, at least 11 of them will be pleading with Premier Gordon …
Emailwire
Cedar Grove Lodge (http://www.cedargrove.on.ca) has just partnered with Planetair to provide a way …
Vancouver Sun
OTTAWA - As the Liberals struggle to show their Green-Shift, carbon-tax proposal as just one of many election campaign pledges, environmentalists say it’s …
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
The Green Party candidate for Bruce-Grey-Owen-Sound is out with a new challenge. Dick Hibma has announced he will purchase carbon offsets for the five …
Surrey Leader
Surrey North Delta Leader Premier Gordon Campbell should scrap his carbon tax in light of broad public opposition that is now also playing ..
RTT News
ERA Carbon Offsets Ltd. (ESR.V: News ) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, ERA Ecosystem Restoration Associates Inc., has executed a …
Europe
SustainableBusiness.com
The European Union wants 12 demonstration plants for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) in operation by 2015, and they are preparing to fund development …
ClimateChangeCorp.com
The exclusion of tropical forests from the world’s largest carbon market could soon be reversed as European policy-makers consider amendments to the current …
UK
Environmental Data Interactive
Carbon could be captured from heavy emitting power plants and stored in geological vaults such as the former Kinsale Gas Field off the coast of Cork, …
Energy Efficiency News
Companies must prepare now to move toward a more energy-conscious, low-carbon economy to make the most of the commercial opportunities it brings, …
Financial Times
Sir, Martin Rees and Nick Butler are right that more carbon capture demonstration plants are urgently needed (“Carbon capture stations must not be delayed”, …
Hemscott
Climate Exchange Plc. said its first-half pretax loss narrowed, adding that it is well positioned for continued growth. …
Building.co.uk
National Housing Federation chief executive David Orr has warned that the government will miss its target for all new homes to be zero carbon by …
US
New York Sun
Mayor Bloomberg is warning Congress against a “retreat into protectionism” as …
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