Tasmanian Times
Environment
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1.0KTest-Tube trees
Serious design fault discovered in clonal tree plantations … Plantation e.nitens and e.globulus (bluegum) trees grown in Tasmania are highly developed ‘synthetic’...
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Abbott: the slathering junkyard dog …
*Pic: Peta Credlin adorns The Age’s Good Weekend mag … Like a fart in a pickle barrel the Federal Coalition reverberated from...
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NATION: UK pledge to phase out coal a wake up call for blinded Liberals, Nationals & Labor
*Pic: Bob Burton’s pic of coal in the Fingal Valley … Australian Greens Leader Christine Milne says the UK cross party agreement...
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Lapoinya: It just makes no sense …
*Pic: Lapoinya forest manfern … DR CON RHEE … The Lapoinya 68-hectare coupe is one of the last pieces of undisturbed wet...
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Energy Strategy ignores the big issues
Government reports on energy policy are almost inevitably boring and full of jargon and this is certainly the case with the Tasmanian...
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UTAS increases direct fossil fuel investments ten-fold
Hobart, (10/02/2015): Amidst growing concerns about the impacts of climate change the University of Tasmania’s investments in fossil fuel companies grew ten-fold...
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Harriss Protest Bill: It works
*Pic: Premier Hodgman with the law’s architect, Resource Minister Paul Harriss … Yesterday saw the first application of Paul Harriss’ Workplaces (Protection...
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Salamanca excavation deserves EPA attention
Hobart City Council Alderman Reynolds has raised new questions about whether the excavation required for the building of Montpelier Retreat adjacent to...
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World Heritage Area bureaucratic obfuscation …
Readers will recall this post of 12 January: World Heritage desecration . As indicated I made representations to Minister ( for State...
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Wales follows Scotland and votes in favour of fracking moratorium
Another nail in the coffin of the UK shale gas industry was delivered today after the Welsh Government announced it would introduce...
