Monthly Archives: February 2017
Australia’s Electricity Market is Not Agile and Innovative Enough to Keep Up
By Hugh Sadler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University (The Conservation 18 February 2017) On the early evening of Wednesday, February 8, electricity supply to some 90,000 households and businesses in South Australia was … Continue reading
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Dargues Reef Mine Gets Conditional Final Approval from the Commonwealth Government
Most members were under the impression that all approvals for the Dargues Reef Mine were finalised, and that mining was set to commence, as the Miner was saying. However, that was not correct and the Association has been monitoring the … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Dargues Reef Gold Mine
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Environmental Defenders Office Provides Advice on the New NSW Planning Laws
The Environmental Defenders Office has provided detailed advice on the proposed changes to NSW Planning Laws. The NSW Government is proposing to amend State planning laws – updating the Act’s objects and structure, clearer public participation requirements and timeframes, reforms … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Planning & Law - New South Wales
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The Need to Preserve Old Trees for the Conservation of Wildlife
The NSW Government is still allowing the logging of native forests, including in some areas old growth forests, here on the South Coast of NSW. This article was submitted by John Perkins to remind members of the critical significance of … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Biodiversity, Ecology, Forests and Forestry
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Eurobodalla Shire Council Votes to Divest from Fossil Fuel Investments
At the Council meeting on 14 February 2017, the Council in a 5:4 vote agreed to give preference to investing with financial institutions that do not invest in, or finance, the fossil fuel industry. Councillors McGinlay, Brown, Thomson, Constable and … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Climate Change, Energy, Planning & Law - Eurobodalla
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NSW Planning Law Changes – EDO NSW Key Issues Summary
Six big changes to the Planning Act in 2017 (and three missed opportunities). The NSW Government is proposing to amend our State planning laws – updating the Act’s objects and structure, clearer public participation requirements and timeframes, reforms to state … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Planning & Law - New South Wales
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Update from NASA’s Newsletter CO2 reaches 405ppm
As you are all aware atmospheric CO2 concentrations are rising at an exponential rate, reaching 405.25 in December 2016. Last Saturday the ‘Friends of the Botanic Gardens’ had a world expert, Tony Haymet, address their meeting. Not only was it … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Climate Change
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Things fall apart: why do the ecosystems we depend on collapse?
Professor David Lindenmayer, ANU (The Conversation 23/01/2016) People collapse, buildings collapse, economies collapse and even entire human civilizations collapse. Collapse is also common in the natural world – animal populations and ecosystems collapse. These collapses have the greatest impact on … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Ecology, Forests and Forestry
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Sea Spurge Still in the Eurobodalla
The Eurobodalla Shire Council has nearly completed a project, which maps, using GIS mapping, weeds along the coastal zone of the Shire. From this survey priorities are determined and appropriate management procedures introduced. Sea Spurge is one of the weeds, … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Sea Spurge, Weeds
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Tasmanian Volunteers receive FROGGATT AWARD for removing Sea Spurge Weed
When bushwalker Jon Marsden- Smedley first started telling people of his plan to rid southwest Tasmania’s coast of Sea Spurge (Euphorbia paralius) an invasive weed—he was told he was dreaming. Last week the Sea Spurge Action Teams SPRATS which was … Continue reading
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