Wind Watch: U. of Illinois cancels plans for $4.6-million “symbolic” wind turbine

The News-Gazette reports that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is scrapping its plan for a wind turbine because the $4.6-million that would have paid for the project is badly needed for deferred maintenance on campus.
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In a recent Chronicle article on deferred maintenance, Terry W. Ruprecht, the director of energy conservation at the university, said that the deferred maintenance total at Urbana-Champaign was about $500-million, up from $350-million in 2001. About 50 percent of that maintenance backlog is tied to outdated energy components, like lighting and heating-and-cooling systems.

Australia's climate-change winners & losers | Special Coverage | Reuters

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The only clear, outright winners from Australia's climate-change policy unveiled on Monday are the accountants and lawyers who will have to make sense of it.

Losers, on the other hand, are everywhere.

Jennifer Marohasy » More Scepticism in the Mainstream Media

As you might expect, Australia’s Canberra Times is a conformist newspaper that mostly goes along with the capital’s political fashions, and has long run the alarmist AGW line. Over the weekend there has been a turn-around. Their economics editor, a well respected David Alexander, has written a long opinion piece plus a news item, in which amongst other things to concedes that some of the climate critics are highly qualified and (based on the NZ precedent) suggests the possibility of a parliamentary enquiry into the ETS, about which he says “Much would be learnt, the public would be enthralled. Surely there is nothing to be afraid of?”.
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This, and especially the understated rhetorical question, is a stunning development.

United Kingdom: Gordon Brown to overrule minister on Heathrow runway

A third runway at Heathrow is to be approved next month as Gordon Brown prepares to overrule objections made by ministers within his Cabinet.