Jennifer Marohasy » A Depression Would Reduce Carbon Emissions

So, why isn’t all the bad economic news openly embraced as positive news by those that advocate we urgently cut carbon dioxide emissions. Surely, if solutions to global warming are so pressing, the best thing that could possibly happen is a recession if not a depression?

It is very confusing to me that the Federal government is so determined to maintain domestic growth above 2 percent, on the one hand, while at the same time telling us we are ruining the planet with our emissions. The reality is that you cannot have it both ways. Economic activity and emissions are related.

More money (and energy) sunk into wind power

Construction of a windfarm off the Denbighshire coast could be delayed after a barge carrying giant cranes sank in the Atlantic.

The barge, KS Titan 1, was travelling from the United States to Liverpool when it was lost at sea. There were no injuries.

Its cranes were due to install turbines at the Rhyl Flats windfarm.

npower Renewables said it would have minimal impact and the windfarm was on course for completion by July 2009.

The KS Titan 1 was being transported on board a “heavy-lift” vessel, the Ancora, which sailed from Pascagoula in the United States but developed engine problems in the mid-Atlantic.

With the Ancora rolling and tilting, the KS Titan 1 toppled over and sank, along with its onboard cranes.

The KS Titan 1, which is owned by Singapore-based KS Energy Services, was a new three-legged “jack-up” barge equipped with two cranes capable of lifting 180 tonnes.