UP to one million “green” jobs could be created in the next 20 years if Australia’s leaders get serious about tackling climate change, a forum in Brisbane will be told today.
The Southern Cross Climate Coalition, which organised the forum, believes Australia could become a leader in six key industries within the growing [...]

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WITH few clunky mechanical parts, the revolutionary all-electric ManGo may well be the car of the future.
But its creators will first have to get it out of the garage.
For five months, 35 of the University of Sydney’s brightest first-year engineering students have been labouring in a workshop, solving a maze of complex technical problems.
Scheduled to [...]

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LNG, the company set to produce the first liquefied natural gas out of Gladstone, is on the verge of signing a deal to supply gas from 2012.
LNG announced in February it had signed a heads of agreement with its biggest shareholder, Norwegian company Golar LNG, to supply all of its first production train, which has [...]

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The West Australian Government has given final environmental approval for Gindalbie’s multi-billion dollar iron ore project in the state’s mid-west.
Gindalbie is developing the Karara project, east of Geraldton, in a joint venture with Chinese steel producer Ansteel.
It is the final step in the State Government approvals process.
The project will now go to the Federal Environment [...]

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Employees have been evacuated from a Timor Sea oil rig after an oil and gas spill 3.6km below the surface.
Oil and gas will continue to spill into the ocean from a drilling rig off Australia’s northwest coast for seven weeks, leaving a multi-million dollar clean-up bill for the company responsible.
About 40 barrels of oil are [...]

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The Queensland Government has declared Shell’s coal seam gas-to-liquefied natural gas (CSG to LNG) project on Curtis Island “Significant” allowing Shell to submit an environmental impact statement.
Shell announced they will begin to prepare the statement to develop the project further, with plans to produce first gas from its terminal at Gladstone by 2015.
The project is [...]

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A MULTI-BILLION dollar liquefied natural gas plant is set to be developed in WA’s Kimberley region after a landmark deal between Aborigines, government and business.
Woodside, Australia’s second-biggest oil and gas producer, has agreed terms with the State of Western Australia and the Kimberley Land Council, to develop a LNG Precinct at James Price Point, north [...]

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An outbreak of toxic blue-green algae has been confirmed in the Lower Darling River placing the area around Burtundy on a red level alert for algae.
The algae can cause gastroenteritis and skin and eye irritations and the water is unsuitable for recreation or domestic use and may also pose a threat to livestock.
Blue-green algae levels [...]

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Over the next five years $18 million will be spent by an exploration company trying to find geothermal water wells in western Victoria.
Hot Rock has been granted a permit by the State Government to explore the area stretching from Casterton to Clear Lake in order to build a power plant on.
Drilling is expected to start halfway through [...]

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Fresh economic modelling to be released on Thursday shows emissions trading will not hurt industry or the economy, the government says.
The long-awaited Treasury data, one of the biggest economic modelling exercises ever done in Australia, focuses on what it will cost to tackle climate change.
Climate Change Minister Penny Wong was on Wednesday putting a positive [...]

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