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Media Release: Garnaut Report a cop-out

george — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:07:30 -0400

Economist Ross Garnaut’s Supplementary Report, released today, is a “cop-out” according to climate action group, Rising Tide.

NSW coal will run out before "clean coal"

admin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:29:21 -0400

The Hunter Community Environment Centre has revealed that if the NSW coal industry continues to expand at the rate it has for the last 10 years, the coal reserves will be exhausted in just 35 years. At that time, so-called "clean coal" technology will still be in its infancy .

Clearly, the promise of "clean coal" is irrelevent to the debate about the future of the NSW export coal industry.

Labor party policy is condemning NSW to catastrophe

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:52:57 -0400

Rising Tide Newcastle has hit out at the Labor party this week for what it says is misleading and cowardly greenhouse emissions policy that will condemn NSW to accelerated climate change.

NSW is directly responsible for 150 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent entering the atmosphere every year. Carbon dioxide released from exported NSW coal which is burnt overseas, comes to an additional 220 million tonnes per year. Neither figure shows any indication of falling in the foreseeable future.

“The trajectory NSW is following is going to devastate the ecology of this state. The Labor Government’s plan does not cut emissions by anywhere near the degree necessary to avoid a 2ºC warming scenario, which will lead to nearly 80% loss in coral reef systems globally and an up to 70 per increase in forest fires in the coming decades.

Labor coal plan would condemn the world to catastrophe

admin — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:31:28 -0500

Climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle have slammed the proposal by the Federal Opposition to spend half a billion dollars of tax-payers money on dubious “clean coal” technology. The new plan announced by opposition leader Kevin Rudd aims to have "clean-coal" fired electricity in the national grid by the year 2020.

Danger of greenhouse experiment exposed

steve phillips — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:22:13 -0400

The coal industry's response to climate change is looking more and more dubious, with reports this week that carbon dioxide pumped underground by US researchers is dissolving the minerals that should keep it there.

Stop Plans for New Coal Plants in NSW: Write a Letter

Oliver Coleman — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 18:13:06 -0500

The NSW Government is currently making plans to increase electricity supply in the state, due to growing demand. Although are there are sustainable ways to solve the problem, the government has indicated that the outcome will instead be new coal-fired power stations. Due to our dependency on coal, electricity generation in Australia already accounts for about half our greenhouse pollution emissions, and is therefore our major contribution to global climate change. In NSW, approximately 90% ofelectricity is produced from the combustion of coal.