The NSW Supreme Court has ruled a Peabody Energy subsidiary must reinstate access to a farm neighbouring its giant Wambo coal mine, and pay damages, after finding its enviromental specialist misled the farm's owner.
The new ISO 50001 standard mirrors the approach of the ISO 14001 environmental management system, but that doesn't mean your company should make the same people responsible for both, says Energetics' Gordon Weiss.
There is more to preparing for a carbon price than fine-tuning your emissions inventory, cautions Ernst & Young's climate change and sustainability leader Mathew Nelson.
A major review of New Zealand's trading scheme has uncovered 'a marked and positive shift' in business attitudes to pricing carbon, its Climate Change Minister Nick Smith said today, while flagging an update of the review in the wake of Australia's announcements.
The 'last thing' Australia needs is for the Greens and environment groups to 'socially engineer' the nation's energy future, Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has told CE Daily, who says the government has already hired advisers for its proposed closure of 2000MW of coal-fired generating capacity.
The Coalition won't succeed in dismantling the carbon price scheme, partly because the bills define permits as property, Assistant Climate Change Minister Mark Dreyfus said today, while also expressing concern at the high costs of emissions auditing.
