Browsing: SA

• Orica tries again to export HCB waste
  
• ESAA to Tasmania – congratulations, we don't like feed-in tariffs either
  
• Alliance calls for 'green new deal'
  
• Ferguson launches geothermal industry plan
  
• SA seeks EPBC Act approval for 'worst-case scenario' seawater flooding
  
• Emissions must peak by 2015, IPCC chief tells UN talks

• Woodside's offshore processing claim – carbon leakage or pre-existing economics?
  
• IEA warns of 6°C rise
  
• SA Parliament passes bag ban bill, EPHC issues bag trial report
  
• Ministers release wind farm report
  
• AIGN issues climate briefs
  
• Recyclers welcome NSW waste levy boost

• Milne to re-introduce feed-in tariff bill in wake of Senate inquiry
  
• NSW waste levy changes prompts warning
  
• NSW to rewrite biodiversity strategy
  
• Alcoa puts Wagerup expansion on hold citing financial crisis, ETS concerns
  
• South Australia audits quarries
  
• How Kraft plans to save $550,000 a year and cut water use 39%

• SA prepared to 'go it alone' on key wastes
  
• Report assesses research gaps on climate change and emergency services
  
• Queensland EPA sets out plans for Gladstone air study
  
• Victorian program targets water use in cafés

South Australia's environment court has fined Downer EDI Works $90,000 after it used contaminated fill on a housing construction site. The company is facing a civil claim of about $3.8 million for remediation costs.

• SA unveils energy efficiency scheme requirements
  
• Victoria moves to implement carbon capture and storage legislation
  
• NT issues draft terms of reference for review of assessment law
  
• SA proposes noise guidelines for wind farms
  
• Insurers face 'a fork in the road' on climate change, report says
  
• Federal agency issues multiple chemical sensitivity report
  
• Environmental finance awards open for nominations

NSW Land and Environment Court Chief Justice Brian Preston has ordered poultry processor Baiada to pay $120,000 plus prosecutor's costs, on top of clean-up and rectification costs totalling more than $44,700, after sub-standard plumbing work caused a spill of a million litres of effluent. Meanwhile, a South Australian court fines Transpacific $15,000 after effluent escaped into a wetland.

Use climate action fund to help 'price-sensitive' industries, says South Australia

* Allocate 20% of permit revenue to climate fund, says Energetics

* Generators caution on free permits

* Environment Business Australia urges at least 25% cut by 2020

* Trading scheme will 'disempower' voluntary action, efficiency expert warns

* ExxonMobil urges EPBC Act rethink

* Greenpeace lauds 'tipping point' as jury acquits protestors

• Pension fund divests $1.1 billion stake in Rio Tinto over West Irian mine
  
• Energy users crunch the numbers on gas
  
• Farm company to pay $20,000 for EPBC Act breach
  
• SA waste program targets small business

• 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