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  • Norway opens osmotic power plant 25 Nov 2009 08:37 GMT
    ... The world's first power project that generates energy by mixing fresh ... Oslo fiord. It aims to produce enough electricity to light and heat a small town ... atmosphere. Leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Japan, Indonesia and Brazil Leaders of the ...

  • New Zealand passes carbon laws, Australia edges closer 25 Nov 2009 08:51 GMT
    ... Australian Senate poised to approve emissions trading New ... July 2010, but for a two-and-half-year period industry will only have to meet 50 percent ... compensation to big emitters, coal companies and electricity generators to gain backing for their schemes. ...

  • NZ passes carbon trade laws, Australia edges closer 25 Nov 2009 09:51 GMT
    ... NZ passes carbon trade laws, Australia edges closer WELLINGTON/CANBERRA (Reuters) - New Zealand's ... July 2010, but for a two-and-half-year period industry will only have to meet 50 percent ... compensation to big emitters, coal companies and electricity generators to gain backing for their schemes. ...

  • WRAPUP 1-NZ passes carbon trade laws, Australia edges closer 25 Nov 2009 08:48 GMT
    ... Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who will play ... compensation to big emitters, coal companies and electricity generators to gain backing for their schemes. ... their schemes. Australia will give its coal industry A$1.5 billion in compensation over five years, ...

  • Syngas Engages Rentech and GE for Clinton Coal and Biomass to Liquids Project in Australia 25 Nov 2009 10:55 GMT
    ... to a contract for supply of GE power plant technology for the power generation component. ... km north west of Adelaide, in South Australia. It is in close proximity to well ... to well established infrastructure including the national electricity grid and rail network. ...

  • Australia's opposition backs law on carbon 25 Nov 2009 03:12 GMT
    ... Australia's opposition was committed to supporting a deal ... in assistance to the country's coal and electricity producers in return for opposition support for ... than double the level of assistance to power producers like AGL Energy and Origin Energy, ...

  • UPDATE 2-Australia's carbon-trade deadlock nears end 25 Nov 2009 05:24 GMT
    ... CANBERRA, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd edged closer to ... to big carbon emitters, coal companies and electricity generators. The Australian coal industry expressed disappointment, ... did not offer enough protection for coal-fired power stations, which produce 80 percent of Australian ...

  • Australia's carbon-trade deadlock nears end 25 Nov 2009 05:31 GMT
    ... CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd edged closer to ... to big carbon emitters, coal companies and electricity generators. The Australian coal industry expressed disappointment, ... did not offer enough protection for coal-fired power stations, which produce 80 percent of Australian ...

  • Down Under: Can the U.S. Learn From Australia's Emissions Plan? 25 Nov 2009 01:35 GMT
    ... month’s big climate-change summit in Copenhagen. Does Australia offer a blueprint for how to pass ... Both rely on lots of coal for electricity. In both countries, the power sector and vulnerable industries have railed against ...

  • Australia's carbon scheme gains bipartisan support 25 Nov 2009 03:10 GMT
    ... on Tuesday) * Compensation boosted to coal, electricity sectors * PM: revised carbon scheme best ... carbon scheme best outcome for Copenhagen * Australia sees carbon price A$26 a tonne, 2012-13 ... every tonne of carbon produced and give industry an incentive to become more efficient. "Some ...

  • Opposition backs Australian carbon reduction bil... 25 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
    ... November 24, 2009 at 5:04 a.m. - Australia's opposition leader Tuesday pledged his party's support ... increases financial assistance to major polluters including electricity generators and ensures that farmers are not ... government plan would institute a tax on industries' carbon emissions starting in 2011 and limit ...

  • Australia takes step to CO2 trade, aids Copenhagen 25 Nov 2009 01:51 GMT
    ... Australia takes step to CO2 trade, aids Copenhagen ... to big carbon emitters, coal firms and electricity generators. Analysts say action by Australia, the ... of greenhouse gases, might encourage other big industrial emitters such as the United States and ...

  • The oil-economy connection 25 Nov 2009 12:16 GMT
    ... being comprised of the energy used to power activities and the embodied energy used in ... USA’s oil inheritance are primarily powered by electricity from coal-fired and nuclear power plants. Despite ... Regional Affairs and Transport Committee report into Australia's future oil supply and alternative transport fuels ...

  • Sweetened carbon deal still hard to swallow 25 Nov 2009 05:20 GMT
    ... under its revised emissions trading legislation, but Australia's biggest carbon polluters still do not like ... offer. Despite an extra $3 billion for power generators, one company in the sector says ... power station in Victoria's La Trobe valley. Electricity generators are by far the biggest winners ...

  • Coal-burning China invests in methane capture 25 Nov 2009 05:21 GMT
    ... siphoned-off methane is transported through pipelines to power stations where, unlike carbon dioxide, it can ... dioxide, it can be recycled to produce electricity. China, a massive consumer of fossil fuels ... modernisation," said Dave McKinnon, project manager for Australian firm Valley Longwall International. His company has ...


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