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Fairfax-Ipsos poll has a simple message to MPs: cut carbon emissions as well as power bills
David Crowe
Voters are giving Bill Shorten good reason to rescue a policy dumped in desperation three months ago.
Today’s Celebration
Army Coup Day – Mali
Birthday of HM Sultan Qaboos – Oman
Discovery Day – Puerto Rico
Garifuna Settlement Day – Belize
Monaco National Commemoration Day – Monaco
Prince Ranier’s Day – Monaco
US Marine Corps Day – United States of America
Community and Philanthropy Partnerships Week
Road Ribbon for Road Safety (WA)
Climate Change
Why predicting the weather and climate is even harder for Australia’s rainy northern neighbours
Andrew King and Claire Vincent
Australians love to complain about weather forecasts, but compared with some other parts of the world ours are impressively accurate.
How Extreme Weather Is Shrinking the Planet
Bill McKibben
With wildfires, heat waves, and rising sea levels, large tracts of the earth are at risk of becoming uninhabitable. But the fossil-fuel industry continues its assault on the facts
https://tasmaniantimes.com/2018/11/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet/
National
Energy efficiency review to build on 6 years of success
A draft report has been released on Australia’s appliance energy efficiency legislation, containing recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the Greenhouse and Energy Minimum Standards Act 2012.
Labor to face pressure on environment policies after embarrassing stuff-up
Party members vow to step up push for national environment protection authority at ALP conference
Scott Morrison urged to raise Australia’s opposition to whaling with Japanese PM
Japanese fleet has departed for the southern ocean for a ‘scientific’ hunt, ignoring pleas for the practice to end
‘Impending plasticide’: Emergency tax tipped as waste crisis deepens
Australia’s waste crisis is tipped to deepen, with global wealth manager Credit Suisse predicting the federal government will intervene within two years.
Voters want lower prices and emissions [$]
Power bills are the biggest concern for voters when it comes to energy policy but cutting carbon emissions is a close second, the latest Fairfax/Ipsos poll shows.
https://www.afr.com/news/voters-put-price-before-emissions-but-not-by-a-lot-20181118-h180uh
Labor’s climate policy might work this time [$]
Phillip Coorey
Bill Shorten will unveil his energy policy on Thursday, two days before the Victorian election. He is confident it will help swing votes Labor’s way.
Fairfax-Ipsos poll has a simple message to MPs: cut carbon emissions as well as power bills
David Crowe
Voters are giving Bill Shorten good reason to rescue a policy dumped in desperation three months ago.
New South Wales
Labor promises probes in big NSW projects
NSW Labor leader Michael Daley has vowed to initiate public planning inquiries into all infrastructure projects worth $1 billion or more if elected in March.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/labor-promises-probes-big-nsw-projects-163123697–spt.html
‘Significantly compromised’: Government ignored advice of its own officers on logging
The Berejiklian government ignored the advice of its own environment officers in approving new native logging rules, including a warning about reduced koala protection, according to an internal submission.
Secret report reveals cancer-linked toxic waste in NSW [$]
Under fire Environment Minister Gabrielle Upton has no excuses for being unaware of a scandal over toxic waste being dumped in regional NSW
Queensland
Qld grants to spark battery investment
Millions of dollars will be available to Queenslanders from Monday to install solar panels with battery storage.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/qld-grants-spark-battery-investment-163026076–spt.html
Value of coal sector not to be underestimated [$]
Courier Mail editorial
The Government must tread carefully on further regulatory hurdles and royalty imposts as it risks deterring miners from coming to Queensland.
South Australia
Bureau’s heat-warning system is ready to save lives [$]
Weather experts based in Adelaide now have the technology for a heatwave warning system to protect the vulnerable in the days before disaster potentially strikes.
Shonky solar setups send complaints through the roof [$]
Disgruntled solar panel owners are making complaints to South Australia’s consumer services watchdog on average every three days, new figures reveal.
Why Port Pirie needs Nyrstar’s smelter [$]
Geoff Brock
The business case for Nyrstar’s new metal-processing plant shows it will be very profitable. But it’s far more than a smelter. This plant is a family builder, the heart of our Mid North community.
Forget robot cars, just fix the damn roads [$]
Matthew Abraham
Successive state governments have spruiked the benefits of driverless cars. But back here in reality, frustrated voters can’t even turn left from South Rd on to Port Rd any more — and it’s driving Matthew Abraham crazy.
Northern Territory
Fire alert failure
Review into bushfire response states media alerts were “overlooked”
Western Australia
No-frack protesters to target Ellenbrook cabinet meeting ahead of report
Anti-fracking protesters will target a meeting of state ministers in Ellenbrook on Sunday ahead of the release of an inquiry into the controversial gas mining technique.
Swan’s prawn setback sparks river trust blast
Up until a couple of years ago, James Tweedley marvelled at how well a project to breathe new life in an age-old practice on the Swan River had been going.
Sustainability
Air pollution levels in UK ‘forcing families to move out of cities’
As diesel emission fears mount, a growing number of parents now consider clean air the main factor when choosing a school
It’s the right time to review the world’s chemical weapons convention
Martin Boland
The use of chemical weapons has shifted from the battlefield to attacks on civilian targets. Time to rethink the convention that prohibits their use.
For Mobility as a Service (MaaS) to solve our transport woes, some things need to change
Neil Sipe
The Whim app seamlessly connects users to multiple transport modes in Helsinki – public transport, taxis, car rental and car/bicycle sharing.
More people in the world have a mobile phone than a toilet [$]
Rex Jory
It’s World Toilet Day, but before you snigger think about this — 2.5 billion people across the world don’t have regular access to any kind of toilet. It’s no laughing matter
Nature Conservation
‘Rare conservation win’: Mountain gorilla population on the rise
‘It’s a total conservation win, and there aren’t that many of them.’
https://au.news.yahoo.com/rare-conservation-win-mountain-gorilla-population-rise-003721745.html
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