Browsing: Tasmania

Concluding a process lasting more than six years that involved three successive EPBC Act referrals and four environment ministers, Gunns Ltd has won final approval for its planned pulp mill at Bell Bay.

An advisory body to Tasmania's climate change minister, Greens MP Nick McKim, has urged the State Government to set a 2020 target of cutting emissions by 25%, bolstered by agreements with key industries.

• 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

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

• Burke approves SA uranium mine expansion
  
• EPA cautions landowners after company fails to remove dumped waste from leased site
  
• ACT reviews Nature Conservation Act; seeks climate council members
  
• ACCC issues interim approval for fluorocarbons scheme
  
• Tasmania issues stormwater strategy

• 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

Environment and forestry groups have today signed a landmark 'statement of principles' that would halt logging in Tasmania's high conservation value forests and leave the door open for construction of a pulp mill in the state.

The native forest logging industry has 'lost the public debate' and timber's place in a carbon trading regime will be a 'game breaker' for the sector, Gunns CEO Greg L'Estrange has told a forest industry conference in Melbourne.

• Majority of Australians wary of industry climate 'scare campaigns'
  
• Tasmanian report outlines climate change effects
  
• NSW wind farm court challenge averted

• Tasmanian EPA to conduct 40 'voluntary' audits
  
• KPMG study looks at WA dam desalination options
  
• Geocycle secures permit to import hazardous waste
  
• WA glass crushing plant open for business
  
• Green Building Council offers master classes
  
• Consultant sought for Northern Australia climate change study