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Energy companies in Europe show increased interest in sourcing biomass
Energy companies in Europe show increased interest in sourcing biomass from the US South, reports the North American Wood Fiber Review Woody...
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760Climate Spectator: A Clean Start
The Business Spectator team were planning our new site, Climate Spectator, when former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd dropped the government’s carbon pollution...
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Tasmania fumes over media misconduct
Contrary to extraordinary claims made on ABC television earlier this year, it has now been confirmed that timber plantations are not polluting...
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Public loss, private gain?
THE JOKE that is the Huon Valley Council’s “consultation and communications strategy” got sicker at its June meeting, when management acknowledged that...
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Gerrity’s hypocricy on asylum seekers
West Coast Mayor Darryl Gerrity’s recent remarks in response to Kevin Harkin’s suggestion that asylum seekers could be housed in Tasmania contradicts...
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International spotlight on arsenic and lead poisoning in Australian lead mining town
The Global Lead Advice and Support Service (GLASS), has published, on one of the most popular lead websites in the world, the...
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Tasmanian Reverie
Canto One The entrance to the old abandoned primary school at Rocherlea sports a pleasant sign boasting that the driver of the...
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Hip, Hip Hooray …
When Pope Urban urged Holy war he spoke in these words … “O race of Franks! Race beloved and chosen of God…...
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Paper Mill Upsets Baikalsk’s Hopes for Strawberries and Skis
BAIKALSK, Irkurtsk Region — Baikalsk, a town of 15,000 located on the shore of the famed Lake Baikal, is haunted by two...
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Forestry Smoke … not a good start for David O’Byrne
In Budget Estimates recently David O’Byrne MP, was reported in Hansard as saying the acknowledged dangerous levels of forestry smoke earlier this...
