Date: 13 February 2023 at 8:42:03 am AEDT
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Subject: Daily Links Feb 13
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Imagining a world without fossil fuels
Mark Stoll’s new book “Profit” describes how capitalism and its spawn, consumerism, fuel climate change and environmental degradation. “The environment,” he writes, “can no longer bear the cost.”
On This Day
Climate Change
‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis
Black Mountains College in Wales aims to prepare students for life during a planetary emergency
National
Renewable energy developers and operators warn Australia’s decarbonisation efforts could be derailed because of massive green spending plans by the US.
Treasurer says energy market intervention is working to provide household relief
Treasurer Jim Chalmers tells ABC Insiders the federal government’s intervention is putting downward pressure on electricity prices, and inflation remains the economy’s greatest challenge.
The receipts you touch everyday have chemicals in them. How dangerous can they be?
Retailers are ditching BPA in receipts amid health concerns associated with the chemical, but they’re staying largely silent on what replacement is used to make the receipts.
Mess still unfolding after plastic recycling scandal
The catastrophic failure of Australia’s soft plastics recycling scheme shocked customers. Months on, the mess is unfolding as a fight brews over the clean up.
Crucial court battle to set road tax for electric cars
How much electric vehicle drivers will pay to use Australian roads, and who will charge them, could be determined during an upcoming high-profile court case.
Environment groups call for urgent action on hazardous waste from e-cigarettes
Head of Clean Up Australia says disposing of vapes is ‘a new and serious environmental issue’
Gross hypocrisy of Joyce, the wind turbine NIMBY
Letters
The hypocrisy of Barnaby Joyce is staggering. He opposes wind turbines in his own backyard but espouses big polluting holes in the ground elsewhere.
Victoria
More than 100 ducks found dead at swamp in Victoria, wildlife rescuers say
Concerned locals raise the alarm after noticing dead ducks in a nature conservation reserve in Central Victoria. Initial test results show no signs of human involvement in the deaths.
Water minister at odds with Melbourne Water’s plans for flood inquiry
Victorian Water Minister Harriet Shing says development on floodplains is a key area of review in Melbourne Water’s inquiry into last year’s record-breaking flood in Maribyrnong. But the water authority has already ruled out reviewing broad planning matters.
New South Wales
The fire is now under control but authorities remain nervous a change in weather conditions could see the blaze jump containment lines.
NSW forests face uncertain future as ‘desperation’ builds over major parties’ inaction over logging
With no clear commitments, the gap between community expectations and actions of state MPs will be a major election flashpoint
Aviation sector takes on its biggest challenge: going green
Nestled in a hangar in Sydney’s south-west, engineers are trying to solve one of the aviation industry’s biggest problems: how do you reduce the carbon pollution produced by planes?
Tolls and trains: Sydney transport front and centre for Minns and Perrottet
Taxpayers would subsidise truck drivers and tradies to use the M5 East and M8 major motorways under a $184m election pitch by Labor to woo voters in Sydney’s west.
ACT
Car-free day in ACT needs impact without undue traffic disruption: Shane Rattenbury
Parkes Way will not be closed at 8am on any given Monday. Motorists will not be turned back at the ACT border. Fines will not be issued to anyone who turns a key in their ignition.
Queensland
More than 50 fires burning in Queensland as scorching weather grips the state
Wild weather gripping parts of Queensland, with more than 50 fires burning across the state.
Jobs fears for Qld coal mine as project hits green hurdle [$]
A Queensland coal mine is fearing massive job losses are on the horizon as a 16 year approval process hits another stumbling block.
Bush tucker used for 65,000 years could change the way the world cooks
New University of Queensland research suggests there could be a nutritious alternative to salt in common plants Traditionally used by Indigenous people as food, animal fodder and medicine.
Tasmania
Should the Tassie tiger be brought back to life? Have your say and ask the experts questions
We want to hear from you — should the Tasmanian tiger be brought back to life? And what will that mean for First Nations people, the environment, and the ecosystem?
New accommodation option on ‘doorstep’ of national park [$]
The couple behind a new pod accommodation option at the entrance to one of Tasmania’s most visited national parks says the development has the potential to transform the region.
Suzie’s dream of retirement among nature’s paradise in tatters after land clearing for subdivision
Having bought her “little cottage” on Tasmania’s popular Bruny Island with the intention of enjoying retirement nestled in nature — Suzie, and other locals, say the unapproved clearing of trees by a developer has devastated the area.
Northern Territory
Ngarinyman-Wulayi Traditional Owners and Northern Land Council launch legal action against land clearing
Senior Traditional Owners backed by the Northern Land Council have launched legal action in the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory, challenging a decision made on 25 November 2022 by a delegate of the Pastoral Land Board to grant a permit to clear native vegetation over at least 923 hectares of land at Auvergne Station.
Western Australia
First-ever shark enclosure to be installed on Swan River following fatal attack
A shark barrier will be installed at Bicton Baths in Perth’s south following a fatal attack last Saturday, and six other councils have also been asked to look at installing enclosures.
Slow lane: why can’t we have what European cities have?
Mark Naglazas
A brisk bike ride through the Perth CBD gave our writer an insight into what Perth might have been if Amsterdam was our model, not Los Angeles.
Sustainability
The last mine in a remote Norwegian archipelago is set to be shut down in two years, cutting carbon dioxide emissions. But its closure will erase the identity of a century-old mining community that fills many with deep pride.
Want to live longer? Consider planting a tree
The more trees planted in a neighborhood, the fewer people die, according to a recent study led by U.S. Forest Service researchers out of Portland, Oregon.
An economy that shrinks quantity and grows quality
Geoff Davies
Recent debate on this site about economic growth and environmental protection highlights the very narrow and limiting framing of mainstream economics, and points to the far more positive prospect that is available to us if we can broaden our vision.
Nature Conservation
More than 36 million trees died in California last year. Blame drought.
A new report found almost triple the number of trees died last year than the year before.
A mega port in India threatens the survival of the largest turtles on Earth
Divya Narain
In a remote archipelago at the southernmost tip of India lies the Great Nicobar Island. This pristine ecosystem is a globally important nesting site of the largest turtles on Earth – leatherback turtles. But now, the site is threatened by a massive infrastructure plan.
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