I see the biggest single grant was $94Million in 2010 to birth the Australian Carbon Trust Limited headed by one Michael Rann – that later transformed into Low Carbon Australia which later again was integrated into the
Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).
CSIRO seems to be the biggest single grants recipient with about $48million – followed I think by the BoM with about $22million. Click more for hopefully a spreadsheet of the main details for all grants 2010-11-12 Continue reading A Quarter $Billion in climate change grants over three years 2010-2012
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Ninti One Ltd – a skilled operation gets $1 million from Fed Govt Climate Change Fund
Checking out who gets what in the world of Climate Change grants I came across this neat little operation – – Ninti One Ltd in Alice Springs. Many involved seem to be big city academics who would be funded anyway by their tertiary education institutions. But I am sure Ninti One Ltd can put the Govt funds to good use.
ABC says – Carbon farming a flop at Henbury Station – thats in the Northern Territory Australia
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East Timor economic zone border dispute with Australia
A tangled issue now with allegations of spying and the ABC Four Corners show – Drawing the Line. In the transcript the word “trench” is not used and Alexander Downer says “continental shelf” once.
There are plenty of noisy GreenLeft groups in our media pushing the East Timor case for the border to be half way between the two countries. This map shows how various borders are at present – Australia’s Maritime Jurisdiction in the Timor Sea [PDF 39MB].
One factor that has long been considered in setting maritime borders is the submarine geology. In this case it is the destiny of East Timor to be very near the Timor Trench as this map shows. Whereas Australia has the broad continental shelf to claim – where the oil and gas deposits are.
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NSW Govt backs clearing of “Invasive Native Species” for burning to generate electricity in the Cobar region
Fascinating article from The Land – page 1 and page 3 – I have had Cobar people telling me about this for months.
Is this the sort of scheme where you might expect to read about “carbon credits”?- I do not see that here – but there is another article to come. Has anybody got a view re these Cobar INS when burnt releasing heat equal to “…between brown and black coal.” Another point not clear is what happens to the ash. Is that trucked back to the source land to be added as soil carbon? Many vital details yet to emerge.
On another timber subject – turn to page 11 and there is an account of how the properties from crashed often ASX listed “managed investment schemes” MIS, to grow plantation timber – are hitting the land market. Near a $Billion worth. These huge disasters date from more than a decade ago. Where is that Beijing phone number.
Going back to 2006 or so I recall this news from Cobar as landholders disagreed with the NSW Govt over land clearing – this from December 2006.
Note Cobar has grid electricity through Essential Energy.
Mexican drug lords so desperate they are mining iron ore
Hardly enough to worry Vale, BHP or RIO –
Mexican police seize 119,000 tonnes of iron ore mined by drug lords
Cecilia Jamasmie – 4 March, 2014
Greens will be apoplectic – Prime Minister Abbott says, “…too many of Australia’s forests are locked up”
Why has it taken so long for Australia to elect a PM who will state this obvious fact? Tony Abbott says too much Tasmanian forest ‘locked up’, forms new council to support timber industry –
Foresters are the real carers of the bush – not the Greens.
Not only is the PM a rainmaker…
No excuse for this ABARES – CSIRO – BoM soil moisture map not being up to date
ABARES is the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences – they are having their annual conference on 4 – 5 March.
The ABC has just posted this story – Drought takes its toll on the soil –
Featuring this map which compares the upper layer soil moisture from January 2014 with readings for the past 100 years.
Why not update the map following good rains in February in western Queensland and parts of New South Wales. Surely with the combined talents of ABARES – CSIRO – BoM they could have done that.
Would have changed their entire story – making the map compare late Feb 2014 soil moisture to the past 100 years would have resulted in smaller areas of scary brown patches.
Just think of the combined salaries.
Australian Government Emissions Reduction Fund Green Paper annoints carbon farming as main method of reducing emissions
Hoping to get a discussion going on carbon farming and what it really means. Correct me if I am wrong – under the previous Gillard Govt carbon farmers would have had the carbon tax price of ~$24? per tonne to price their sequestration efforts.
Under the Abbott Govt the Carbon Tax is intended to be scrapped – if the Senate will eventually vote for repeal. So the previous Govt concept is to be replaced by an auction system where carbon farmers will bid a price that they will sequester carbon – after submitting a scheme for their property and having it ticked off of course. The Govt hopes this system will lead to the lowest cost to taxpayers to get a certain quota of emissions reductions.
Is that basically it?
So carbon farming is really a reafforestation scheme for marginal lands. With the owner being paid so much per tonne of increased carbon accumulating on and under the land. What could farmers realistically expect to earn by letting their farms “return to nature”?
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I have written on the failure of the Henbury carbon farming project – but despite trying FOI to two Govts have never found out exact reason why Henbury failed.
Does anybody know about carbon farming projects in their regions?
Any success stories?
Australian Government Emissions Reduction Fund Green Paper says carbon capture & storage CCS is “not commercial”
The 2014 Green Paper an be downloaded and read from here – If you search the pdf file – at the bottom of pdf page 18/67 (page 12 in a paper copy) CCS is referred to as “not yet commercial” [Other opportunities reflect technologies that are not yet commercial, such as carbon capture and storage…]
Hopefully we can expect to see an end to the multiplicity of taxpayer funded quangos that have grown up around CCS. Just google carbon capture and storage.
I seem to recall CCS began to be funded bigtime under the Rudd Govt. Am I right recalling sums on a scale of hundreds of $millions being bandied around?