Man. ethanol plant holds off on new-crop contracts

Husky Energy's ethanol plant in western Manitoba is holding off on new-crop feedstock contracts due to uncertainty in the market, according to a Husky source.
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Cold weather across the Prairie provinces and dry areas in western Saskatchewan have some people thinking about the possibility of lower crop production this year.

Gore to take another fossil-fueled trip to Australia | theage.com.au

FORMER United States vice-president Al Gore will visit Melbourne next month to launch a new organisation inspired by Repower America — his plan to switch the US economy to clean energy in 10 years.

The new group, Safe Climate Australia, is founded by concerned scientists and business and community leaders and will be launched in partnership with VicSuper, the Victorian Government's preferred super fund.

Mr Gore will address a 1000-seat breakfast next month. Safe Climate Australia will invite the business, engineering, opinion and political leaders it believes can help it produce a clean-energy transition plan to rapidly decarbonise the Australian economy.

One of the group's founding members, Ian Dunlop, a former Shell executive and chair of the Australian Coal Association, told The Sunday Age that Safe Climate Australia was not a new advocacy group, rather an apolitical organisation that wanted to produce a practical plan.

Youth speak out on climate change [fraud] goals | smh.com.au

BROOKE SATCHWELL'S life is a staple of glossy magazines but in her own time the actor has been ploughing through the Garnaut report - the weighty, 600-page tome outlining the economic impact of climate change on Australia.

"I was forewarned it was going to be a very dry read but it's not, actually, it's very interesting," she said.

Brooke Satchwell should also plough through this report: About Climate Change Reconsidered

Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) is the most comprehensive objective compilation of science on climate change ever published. It offers a “second opinion” to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007. Unlike that report, Climate Change Reconsidered finds global warming is not a crisis, and never was.