Video: Coal 4 Breakfast

October, 2008

Watch at youtube. See related Nine News video story.

coal4breakfast.com.au

At Haystack on the Darling Downs, a mining development licence has been granted by the state government to the state government owned Tarong power to develop a mine on 13,000 hectares of prime agricultural country. This country is farmed in an environmentally sustainable way and has won national Landcare awards for the work done in the area to promote ecologically friendly farming practices.

In the last year alone the area taken up by this mining licence has produced enough wheat for 68 million loaves of bread, enough sorghum to feed 14 million chickens as well as thousands of tonnes of malting barley, edible chick peas and mung beans. In an era when food prices are rising, a United Nations report recently predicted that in the next 50 years the world will need to produce as much food as it has in the last 10,000 years! Can we really afford to destroy this land.

In 20 years when the windfall for the state coffers has ended and the world no longer wants coal, Australia will stand condemned on the world stage for its greedy rapacious ways and environmental vandalism. This iconic farmland and much more will no longer produce food! Will our children and society really think it was worth it?

Video: Coal Mines To Replace Farms in Australia

September 15, 2008

Watch at youtube. With the mining boom in full swing, mining coal seems more important than Growing food. Liverpool Plains in north-west NSW, and Felton on Queensland's Darling Downs.

See also:
savejerrysplains.com.au
friendsoffelton.blogspot.com
protectfelton.blogspot.com

Videos: solar thermal power

Videos:

7:30 Report, David Mills Ausra
Going Green 2007 - Ausra
Another 7:30 report (video on the right)
Ausra Media Room - has a stack of videos
ACCIONA - Nevada Solar One video
Solar from 7:30 Report

Audio:

Radio National (30 minutes into program)

August 2008 - Worley Parsons is acting as a central broker for a range of companies to work up plans to build the world's biggest solar thermal power plant. They hope to have a definite plan by the end of the year.

Audio: farmers up anti-mining pressure on NSW Govt

19 August , 2008 - ABC radio

A group of farmers is warning the New South Wales Government they will do everything they can to stop mining in their region.

The Chinese company, Shenhua Energy, has approval to explore for coal near Gunnedah on the Liverpool Plains in the north-west of the New South Wales.

Local farmers want an independent water catchment study done, as they claim mining will contaminate water aquifers that are used for stock and domestic use...

TIM DUDDY: The district will blockade every property in the entire district, if that's what it comes to. Until someone is prepared to listen to what we need to do, that is what we are going to have to do.

Environmental vandals. See also video documentary on NSW coal mining industry in Mudgee.

Generating power from waves

14/08/2008
Bush Telegraph, ABC Radio National

In the pursuit of green energy there's some good news out of Western Australia.

Perth based company Carnegie Corporation have just been granted a licence that will allow them to move to the next step in the development of wave energy technology.

This is technology that's been under development for almost a decade.

In this report: Mike Ottaviano, managing director of Carnegie Corporation

Youtube video: CETO Wave Power.

Catalyst interactive: Fire, Flood and Acid Mud

ABC TV, 1 May 2008

Fire, Flood and Acid Mud, a compelling special edition of Catalyst that brings a fresh perspective to highlighting the critical situation in the Murray-Darling and the need for urgent corrective action. The program, through four segments that take the viewer on a physical journey from headwaters to sea, provides a fascinating insight into the problems of this major river system.

More at CanDoBeter: Keep fighting for the Murray Darling in spite of our Government.