Browsing: Air pollution, odour

• Economic modelling – Garnaut names the day
  
• Consider nuclear, Rio Tinto tells NT Government
  
• WorleyParsons seeks sites for large-scale, solar-thermal plants
  
• New Zealand issues renewables policy
  
• National Pollutant Inventory launches video
  
• Al Gore's new ad pushes 100% renewables (with video)

• Queensland to introduce new geothermal legislation
  
• Insurers won't cover CCS, says Shell
  
• Trading scheme will drive shift to clean energy, says Climate Institute
  
• SA wine industry the major user of treated timber
  
• National Pollutant Inventory issues revised handbooks

• Coal-fired power plant assessment challenge fails
  
• Banksia Award winners announced
  
• National Pollutant Inventory issues new manuals
  
• Gore urges U.S. to be 100% renewable in a decade (with video)
  
• OECD calls for policy shift on biofuels

• Rudd urges global ‘grand bargain’ on climate change
  
• EPA Victoria: ‘we’ve got an open mind on hazardous waste reforms’
  
• Queensland EPA issues emissions report card

The NSW Land and Environment Court has ordered Caltex to pay $78,000 to the Department of Environment and Climate Change for failing to control odours at the company’s Kurnell refinery during the 2006 Christmas holidays.



Meanwhile, the WA environment department has issued a $25,000 penalty to gold miner Barrick (Kanowna) Ltd following a tailings spill.

• Time to upgrade NSW waste policy, auditor-general says
  
• 'Environmental professionals must spotlight government failures', EIANZ told
  
• Science academies urge governments to move faster on carbon capture and storage
  
• NPI issues new reporting guide

NSW flags assessment fee hike for chemical destruction technologies

* Wong steers steady course in international talks

* Australia's forests offset 9% of emissions, government report says

* Turnbull slams solar rebate means test

* National Pollutant Inventory overhauls fuel tanks manual

* New Zealand Budget flags major push on energy efficient homes

* Pew Centre looks at trading lessons from the EU

Queensland's Environment Minister Andrew McNamara and a Queensland government MP yesterday praised a former state EPA officer who resigned after blowing the whistle on lax regulation of lead levels in Mount Isa.



McNamara and member for Ipswich Rachel Nolan praised the officer as parliament unanimously approved legislation that will end the environmental regulation of mining operations through 'special agreements'.

• National Water Commission to scrutinise water use by mines
  
• Federal energy program issues detailed efficiency guide
  
• NSW issues exemptions for land-applied wastes
  
• Shipping company fined $35,000
  
• Queensland council fined $40,000
  
• National Pollutant Inventory offers training on new reporting system
  
• Queensland EPA offers sustainability grants
  
• GM crops a boon for regional economies, ABARE says

The Queensland EPA has served a notice on Australia's largest aluminium smelter demanding it verify its National Pollutant Inventory emissions reports after an EPA benchmarking study indicated the smelter is likely to have massively under-reported air emissions of substances including arsenic, cadmium and lead.