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Government Offshore Oil Bids "Reckless "

As Block Offer 2013 bidding began yesterday , the Green Party is calling the Government reckless and pledges to submit the Kiwi Bid - a bid to protect New Zealand waters and leave them free from risky deep sea drilling.   "There are no guarantees of safety with deep sea oil drilling. It ... keep reading

Written by Celsias yesterday, about Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Earth, Soil, & Landscape, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Finance & Money, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Pollution

Denniston Decision by "Conservation "Minister on Eve of New Legislation Means No Public Consultation .

  Conservation Minister Nick Smith has  approved Bathurst Reosurces access agreement so that they can establish an open cast coal mine on the West Coast's Denniston Plateau near Westport . So "Conservation" Minister Nick Smith thinks its cool to mine there.The mine still requires  consents under the Resource Management Act ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Coal & Oil, Conservation, Industry & Business, mining (1 comment)

Toxic Fumes on Oil Rigs – A Multisyllabic Menace

  Ever since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, we have become sharply aware of the hazards of extracting fossil fuels from the earth. This danger presents itself not merely on oil rigs but on pipelines and in processing plants with disturbing regularity ... keep reading

Written by Andrew Miller this week, about Chemicals, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Health, Rivers, Lakes, and Oceans

Do the Math: The Movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLr_lfyRfqY? there's even more to come - check them out here keep reading

Written by Celsias this week, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Climate Change, Coal & Oil, Environmental Disasters, Industry & Business

Nicole Foss Returns to Speak in NZ

Nicole Foss returns to New Zealand and is speaking in a number of cities in June . She will give updates  on the Greece and Cyprus polices, Australia’s current financial position and the global housing bubble, the reasons for vanishing wealth, rising global unemployment and where NZ fits in to ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Advertising, Coal & Oil, Energy Saving

Why Australian Labor Should Fight the 2013 Election on Climate Change

If climate change features prominently in the federal election campaign, it will almost certainly be driven by the Coalition. Under Tony Abbott, the Coalition has long smelled blood in the water on climate change and in particular the carbon tax. Abbott has stated repeatedly that the repeal of the carbon ... keep reading

Written by Matt McDonald this month, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Coal & Oil, Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Politics & Government, Sustainability

Govt Exposing Auckland to the Dangers of Deep Sea Drilling

The Government is putting Auckland's popular and pristine west coast beaches at risk of an oil spill from dangerous deep sea drilling, the Green Party said today. "The upper West coast of the North Island is postcard New Zealand. It is where Kiwis go to swim, fish and holiday ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Action, Protest, & Activism, Children and Families, Coal & Oil, Conservation, Economics, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Politics & Government, Pollution

Ideas Colliding: IBM Research Combines Strategies from Multiple Industries to Create a Super Solar Collector

Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated; their prerequisite has always been historically and physiologically, that a protracted assembling, accumulating, economizing and preserving has preceded them – that there has been no explosion for a long time - Nietzsche. Scientific breakthroughs often follow a ... keep reading

Written by Rayna Gordon-Hellman this month, about Design, Economics, Industry & Business, Innovation, Solar

Climate Change Myth & Reality

  Write a regular column on sustainability and it’s natural to discuss climate change facts and issues from time to time. Do it often enough and the climate change deniers will be happy to tell you what they think.   Letters to the editor “rebuttals” can offer some wacky stuff, but ... keep reading

Written by Gord Stewart this month, about Climate Change, Climate Scepticism, Coal & Oil, Education

"N.Z Safe for Deep Sea Oil"- Yeah Right !

  As Simon Bridges drooled over the prospect of off shore oil drilling in Block Offer 13 happening from Northland and  Taranaki and in Canterbury and the great South Basins in areas of almost 200,000 square kilometres of deep water, he promised a safe regulatory environment. He must know that ... keep reading

Written by Celsias this month, about Coal & Oil, Finance & Money, Fuel, Industry & Business, Politics & Government

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