Browsing: SA

• Government to outline energy efficiency scheme expansion options
  
• SA EPA renews Yalumba's accredited sustainability licence
  
• Consumers shy away from low-carbon water heaters
  
• Ceramic fuel cell delivers in 'Smart Home' trial

A South Australian court has rejected a company's argument that it was not guilty of causing serious environmental harm because Shell owned the infrastructure on its site from which diesel fuel escaped.

The South Australian Government announced today it will abolish its Renewable Energy Fund, saving $11.7 million over the next two years.

• Climate department responds to equipment energy efficiency bill concerns
  
• SA EPA imposes $2,475 penalty for three kilometres of 'offensive' sludge
  
• Comment closing soon on environment and climate change drafts
  
• NT EPA to host U.S. oil spill expert

Environment Minister Tony Burke today granted EPBC Act approval to BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam expansion, on the same day that the South Australian Government gave it the go-ahead, with the Greens warning the project would create a 'carcinogenic mountain'.

• Sydney City proposes underground pipe network for waste
  
• EPA Victoria prosecutions up almost 100%
  
• Gunns ready to press ahead with pulp mill project
  
• EPA SA makes licences available online

• Give Climate Change Authority extra powers, says Ai Group
  
• Companies are not climate 'culprits', BCA says
  
• High-voltage Yorke Peninsula-Adelaide DC link proposed for major SA windfarm

• Solar chiller, trigen projects win green retrofit funds
  
• Ferguson launches omnibus mining sustainability handbook
  
• New head for SA EPA
  
• Council secures Low Carbon funding for lighting upgrade
  
• Aim for 100% renewables, advisory group tells Tasmanian Government

The South Australian EPA has alerted the public to its third separate finding of groundwater contamination in the Adelaide suburb of Edwardstown in just six months.

• New SA stormwater roadmap aims to harvest 20,000ML annually
  
• CO2 group launches new offsets business
  
• Climate department revises national greenhouse factors