Environment

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If the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project proceeds, it will create around 3 million tonnes of new CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions per annum, according to estimates by The Australia Institute (TAI). This is the equivalent of 735,000 new petrol cars on our roads. The $500m HESC pilot project was subsidised by $50 m…

Rorts abounded before the last federal election. The sports rorts, the $2.5 billion community development grants slush fund, the Regional Growth Fund; the Urban Congestion Fund, Regional Infrastructure Grants program, the non-compliant drought grants. Ad infinitum. Just a week out from the election, Queensland Coalition MP Luke Howarth announced $2 million for…

Our government heeds the advice of medical experts regarding coronavirus yet ignores the advice of climate experts regarding the warming of our planet. Their extreme positions suggest they are coronavirus alarmists and climate change deniers. First published as a Letter to the Editor, The Age 15 February 2020

When I buy processed food, I value knowing how much sugar, fat and salt I am putting in my body. I would also value knowing how much carbon I am putting in the atmosphere when I go shopping. What is the cost to the Earth of buying a new pair…

There are many threats to our world's environment.  You do not need to be a genius, or even a geographer, to realise this. I just happen to be the latter (certainly not the former) and, as such, have been empowered by Farrago to speak with some authority on the topic…