Our China crisis

AUSTRALIA is now entering an income recession. Our stellar export market is crashing. Michael Stutchbury

Going nuclear is a cleaner way

Without a credible energy policy in place Australia will continue to be daunted by emission reduction targets. By contrast, a nuclear-powered European Union is already laughing all the way to the global carbon bank. Leslie Kemeny

More mixed messages from Labor on uranium

Mon, 3rd November 2008
The Hon Ian Macfarlane MP
Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources

The Rudd Labor Government is risking more damage to Australia’s trading relationship with India as a result of its deepening confusion on uranium mining, Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources Ian Macfarlane said. More

Uranium double standard costing jobs

Ian Macfarlane

“Now that the US-India agreement has been made law, the Rudd Government is in an untenable position by refusing to allow the sale of Australian uranium to India under the same terms, conditions and International Atomic Energy Agency inspection program as Australian uranium sales to China,” the Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources Ian Macfarlane said today.

“The Rudd Labor Government’s hypocrisy over its refusal to sell uranium to India for power generation is continuing to compromise growth in the Australian resources sector. More

Energy policies are “planned chaos”

Australian state and federal governments are pursuing plans that guarantee high prices for gas and electricity, electricity blackouts and high risks to petrol and diesel supplies. It seems that every energy policy is designed to create long term chaos for Australians, BrookesNews.com reports. More

Ban on new Vic dams “ridiculous”

Retiring Yarra Valley Water chairman Alan Cornell said the Victorian Government’s ban on building new dams was “ridiculous” and should be revisited. The Age notes that the Victorian Government believes dams are “increasingly redundant given low stream flows and dire climate change predictions.” More

Persian Gulf switching to coal

As Professor Ross Garnaut was bringing down his report about our “diabolical” climate crisis, Spiegel Online was bringing news of the Persian Gulf turning to coal to meet its energy needs - on the basis that when it comes to oil “it makes more sense to sell it than to burn it.” More

ALP shuns nuclear energy debate

22 Nov 06: For a political movement which spends a disproportionate amount of time and energy complaining that the Right is anti-free speech, the political Left is constantly trying to close down debate; to stop alternative views being heard. More