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24 January 2013
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Mining Adam Brooks World Heritage Lockup To Further Restrict Mining Victor P Taffa New maps tabled in the Legislative Council inquiry reveal that the proposed World Heritage listing under the job-destroying Forest Deal will further restrict mining, Shadow Minister for Mining Adam Brooks said. “Yesterday maps were tabled showing that mining [...]
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23 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Water Peter Walsh $1 Million Gets Wangaratta Water Project Flowing Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government will provide $1 Million to identify feasible water source options for Wangaratta and the surrounding communities, Minister for Water Peter Walsh announced today. “The Water Security for Wangaratta Project will assess alternative water supply [...]
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23 January 2013
Northern Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills A DEAL ON THE TABLE FOR GAS TO GOVE Victor P Taffa The Northern Territory Government has today announced it is progressing its plan to get gas to Gove. Chief Minister, Terry Mills, said securing the future of Rio Tinto and Pacific Aluminium’s Gove refinery was of upmost [...]
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19 January 2013
Victoria Minister for Agriculture and Food Security Peter Walsh New Public Safety Zones In Victoria’s Working Forests Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government is taking a tougher approach towards people who trespass in operational timber harvesting coupes. Agriculture and Food Security Minister Peter Walsh said trespassers put everyone on the harvesting site in danger, [...]
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17 January 2013
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Forestry Peter Gutwein Dodgy Forest Deal Looking Worse By The Day Victor P Taffa The Wilderness Society’s Vica Bayley has today told the Legislative Council that having got forestry, they will now campaign against any mining taking place in the entire 500,000 hectares proposed for lock-up under the job-destroying forest deal, [...]
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16 January 2013
Western Australia Minister for Water Bill Marmion Western Australia Minister for Agriculture and Food Terry Redman Framework To Co-ordinate Inland Drainage Victor P Taffa Liberal National Government launches Policy framework for inland drainage Provides guidance for drainage proposals to manage salinity and waterlogging A drainage policy framework released today by the Liberal National Government will [...]
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02 January 2013
Acting Queensland Minister for Water Supply Andrew Cripps Responsibility For SEQ Bulk Water Moves To Merged Authority Victor P Taffa South East Queensland’s new single bulk water authority, Seqwater, has commenced operations and will deliver water services across the region from today. Acting Minister for Water Supply Andrew Cripps said legislative changes had been finalised [...]
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28 December 2012
Western Australia Minister for Water Bill Marmion Wishing Perth Residents A Waterwise Christmas Victor P Taffa Residents urged to continue their Target 60 efforts over Christmas 7.5 Billions of litres of water saved since July with the aid of Target 60 Perth residents have saved 7.5 Billion litres of water since July and Water [...]
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21 December 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Water and the River Murray Vickie Chapman Labor Breaks Another Promise! Save The River Murray Levy Victor P Taffa Premier Weatherill and Treasurer Snelling have broken a ten year promise to use the Save the River Murray Levy to deliver projects to help the Murray. When the Levy was established [...]
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20 December 2012
Queensland Minister for Energy Mark McArdle Electricity Vision Directions Paper Sets 30-Year Horizon Victor P Taffa Significant issues that impact electricity prices in future decades will be open for public discussion and debate as part of a directions paper released today by Energy Minister Mark McArdle. Mr. McArdle said the directions paper would help shape [...]
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19 December 2012
Victoria Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien Initial Market Assessment Confirms Interest In Latrobe Valley Coal Victor P Taffa The Victorian Coalition Government today provided an update on the development of an allocation process for the Latrobe Valley’s brown coal reserves. A recent market assessment confirmed local and international interest in the brown [...]
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19 December 2012
Victoria Minister for Water Peter Walsh Desalination Plant Completes Commissioning Victor P Taffa The Wonthaggi desalination plant has completed all commissioning tests. The final contractual commissioning milestone, known as Reliability Testing Finalisation (RTF), was reached at 5pm yesterday. The desalination plant achieved Preliminary Commercial Acceptance on 29 September, and achieved Commercial Acceptance on 17 November. [...]
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19 December 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Mining Adam Brooks Mine Approval Welcomed, But Milne’s Reaction Demonstrates Greens Cannot Be Appeased Victor P Taffa Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke’s approval of the Shree Minerals’ mine in Circular Head is a welcome decision, but the response of Greens’ Leader, Senator Christine Milne, confirms that the Greens will never be [...]
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17 December 2012
South Australia Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the River Murray Tim Whetstone Gago Shortchanges Riverland By $6.2 Million Victor P Taffa The Riverland has been shortchanged by the Weatherill Labor Government, which is withholding $6.2 Million of the Riverland Sustainable Futures Fund from local businesses. Member for Chaffey Tim Whetstone said Minister Gago’s announcement that remaining [...]
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17 December 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Water Security Vickie Chapman Labor Admits Recycled Water Cost Is Too High Victor P Taffa The Weatherill Labor Government has admitted that the high price of recycled wastewater is turning potential customers away. In his press release today Water Minister Paul Caica stated that: “We understand that the increasing cost [...]
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15 December 2012
Victoria Minister for Energy and Resources Michael O’Brien Have Your Say On The National Framework For Coal Seam Gas Victor P Taffa Energy and Resources Minister Michael O’Brien has today welcomed the release for public consultation of a draft National Harmonised Regulatory Framework for coal seam gas. The national framework process considers leading practice approaches [...]
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10 December 2012
South Australia Shadow Minister for Mineral Resources Dan van Holst Pellekaan Did Weatherill Know Of Olympic Dam Offshore Move? Victor P Taffa Premier Weatherill must explain whether he knew prior to agreeing to a 46 month extension of the Olympic Dam indenture that BHP was planning to move the corporate management of the Olympic Dam [...]
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07 December 2012
Tasmania Shadow Minister for Forestry Peter Gutwein Govt Must Come Clean On The Cost Of Forest Deal Propaganda Victor P Taffa The Government must immediately come clean on how much money is being spent on propaganda to try and convince Tasmanians and the Legislative Council that the disastrous forest deal is a good thing, according [...]
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05 December 2012
Western Australia Minister for Mines and Petroleum Norman Moore Western Australia Minister for Regional Development Brendon Grylls Exploration Drilling Recipients Announced Victor P Taffa $5.94M shared between 57 drilling projects, including three prospecting projects Flagship program of the Royalties for Regions-funded EIS WA signals global investors it is serious about attracting exploration investment Mines and [...]
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05 December 2012
Queensland Minister for Energy Mark McArdle Experts Cast Doubts On Smart Meters Victor P Taffa Doubts about the cost benefits of smart meters have been expressed by the same experts used to model aspects of the Commonwealth’s Government’s current electricity reform package. Frontier Economics, used to model the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) Power of [...]
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