Browsing: Renewables, low emissions

• EPA Victoria reviews fee structure for licences, works approvals and audits
  
• Environment officials set out tasks for national waste work groups
  
• Renewable energy regulator issues guides ahead of RET split

• Court rules Queensland environment department 'plainly wrong'
  
• Queensland Government backs large-scale solar
  
• Court orders abbattoir to pay $60,000 after effluent discharge
  
• EPA Victoria halves zero carbon costs, excludes GreenPower
  
• Tasmania issues coastal works manual

• New renewables regulations in force
  
• Governments to commission construction waste study
  
• Energy ministers toughen air-conditioner standards
  
• Governments to redevelop energy efficiency advisory website
  
• Queensland calls for ClimateSmart awards nominations
  
• EPA Victoria reviews mine's waste re-use authorisation

• City West Water urges regulator not to release trade waste data
  
• Queensland solar precinct study highlights transmission costs barrier
  
• Pilot underground coal gasification plant to open early next year

ACT Assembly passes law to ban plastic bags

* Silex to raise $89 million to fund pilot solar PV power plants

* Sydney councils propose new recycling and composting facilities

* Consultant sought for Western Australia renewables study

* Energetics, EPA Victoria win CitySwitch awards

* New website rates emissions performance of container ships, tankers

* Tasmania seeks comment on state taxes and sustainability

• City of Sydney unveils $950m trigeneration plan; seeks green infrastructure experts
  
• Improving existing buildings crucial in efforts to cut emissions, says Carbon Trust
  
• Academy crunches the numbers on Australia's low-carbon power options
  
• AGL challenges 'tyranny of dominant thought' on hidden wind costs

• Combet moves early to rein in solar PV support
  
• WA miners release environment code for exploration work
  
• Qantas appoints new carbon offset supplier
  
• NSW tightens grant rules after losing $425,000 to wound-up company
  
• Australian Services Union issues green guide

New coal-fired power stations would have to begin retrofitting carbon capture and storage technology within four years of a ministerial direction, under proposals released today by Federal Energy Minister Martin Ferguson, while a NSW CCS bill would establish an approvals and royalties regime for CO2 injectors.

As well as headline commitments to plant two million trees and impose tighter controls on wind farms, the Victorian Coalition has promised to set 'water substitution' targets for Melbourne, make it easier for industry to install cogeneration systems and let coastal landowners develop their sites with local approval – at their own risk.

• 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