News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
S short-term answer to a transformed electricity sector will be increased investment in gas and renewable energy, according to Premier John Brumby...Responding to revelations in The Age that leaked cabinet documents show Victoria will rely on fossil...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Victoria must increase its use of renewable energy sources. F OR almost a century, Victoria's energy needs have been met by the state's plentiful supplies of cheap brown coal. Those reserves are in no danger of running out, and the tasks of mining...
News Source: BDNews24
| about 1 month ago
China is pushing to complete its first commercial-scale power plant that can capture and store emissions, but must do more research on how and where to lock away carbon dioxide if the technology is to get wide roll-out. Pressure is building on the...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
It was then that the oxymoronic term ''clean coal'' was born, slipped into a bill as a catch-all for technologies that lowered emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Later, of course, it was adopted for proposals to cut carbon dioxide...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Brumby Government is set to take a multibillion-dollar gamble on ''clean coal''. A high-level leak to The Age indicates the Government will embark on an education campaign around carbon capture and storage aimed at a public that it say does ''not...