Rio Tinto’s own staff wanted the blast stopped.
- Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University
The way Rio was set up explains a lot about how it came destroy 46,000 years of Indigenous heritage.
There are many questions about the inquiry into the destruction of an Aboriginal heritage site, including how it will be conducted, what will be publicly disclosed and who will be protected.
Banking executives have huge incentives to maximise profits at all costs. They need equally compelling incentives to do the right thing.
Proposed changes to the government’s climate change policies may stall, or even close down, the market for ‘carbon farmers’ to profit from reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has blamed gas exports for rising energy costs, breaking with a party room determined to find renewables guilty.
The right kind of algae can be converted to biofuel, and there are potential side benefits for carbon capture.
By capturing Arctic methane emissions, the gas industry could join the fight against climate change.
The current domestic gas crisis will pass. But if the industry wants to surpass coal and fulfil its role as a ‘transition fuel’, it should lobby for a carbon price to help it on its way.
Taxing carbon has always been a tricky political sell for conservatives. But a group of establishment US Republicans is touting the idea of a carbon “tax and dividend” as a way to break the deadlock.
With gas prices high, coal-fired power has been increasing, which is bad news for carbon emissions.
BP’s plans for the Bight say it would take 10 days to begin dispersing an oil spill at source, and 35 days for well-capping equipment to reach the site – making it likely that oil would hit the coast.
As BP plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, questions can be asked about whether it has made the right changes to its working practices to avoid a repeat of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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