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7 September 2010
New South Wales, August 28 - The NSW Government’s solar bonus scheme, which pays householders for the electricity they generate from their rooftop panels, has proved so popular it has reached a 50-megawatt milestone 18 months before expected.
Sydney, August 23 - A surge in voter support for the Australian Greens spurred optimism that the government may increase funding to renewable energy projects and impose a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change.
Sydney, August 22 - Australia has plans to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013, part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean energy sources — wind, solar, waves, geothermal energy and bioenergy.
Western Australia, 3 August - The federal government might not yet have committed to addressing it, but one of Australia’s largest industries is soon to have the ruler run over it to see how it will cope with climate change.
July 14- Europe is baffled why Australia does not do more, reports Mathew Murphy. The government’s unwillingness so far to follow the European Union’s lead and put a price on carbon is also restricting investment in renewable energy in Australia. While some Australians remain fearful that a carbon price will result in mass job losses and depress the economy, the German experience tells a different story.
Sydney, June 22 - Australia today moved to give clean energy investors greater certainty over investment returns as part of efforts to have a revised renewable energy scheme approved by parliament.
Queensland, June 21 - Premier Anna Bligh yesterday announced that hundreds of mining jobs set to disappear as the industry is wound up on North Stradbroke Island will be replaced with green positions.
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