Browsing: NSW

NSW utility Hunter Water could implement a demand management and water conservation strategy at less than one-tenth of the cost of the Tillegra Dam proposal scrapped this week by the Keneally Government, according to new research.

Pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp and Dome has reduced its Sydney manufacturing facility's reliance on potable water by 71 kilolitres a day (a 46% cut) over the last five years.

• Boral wins State-level assessment for Gold Coast quarry
  
• Queensland department signals decision-day for Cougar Energy over BTEX
  
• Rising dollar will bite more than carbon price: Access Economics
  
• Milne pressures Government over 'green carbon' environmental controls
  
• Strong support for wind farms in NSW: Survey

Electricity market rules, not policies to control NOx emissions, are hindering business and council attempts to install energy-efficient cogeneration units in Sydney, says the NSW environment department.

• Global investors sound warning on 'climate investment gap'
  
• NSW offering energy savings scheme seminars
  
• Renewable energy regulator outlines 2010 compliance year deadlines
  
• Climate department issues science and challenges summary

• NSW secures enforceable undertaking from Tenix, Bega council
  
• Widely-used toxic chemicals targeted for phase-out
  
• Climate adaptation costing urban water utilities billions
  
• Australia Institute finds little merit in home solar subsidies

• Hazardous Waste Act review on the way
  
• NSW deems more wastes suitable for re-use
  
• Woolworths among WA Environment Award winners

• Infigen seeks NSW approval for four utility-scale solar PV plants
  
• Cap-and-trade not the only option, TRUenergy tells Senate
  
• Tasmania offers climate grants

Australia's environment ministers have today agreed on a plan to harmonise environmental regulation and to give high priority to completing product stewardship framework legislation, but progress is too slow for NSW environment minister Frank Sartor.

• Ferguson seeks views on $100 million renewables fund
  
• NSW kicks off greenhouse gas scheme review
  
• Victorian commission starts work on trade waste code
  
• U.S. courts will hear more climate cases: Deutsche Bank