Developers are currently looking into constructing a base-load power station located in North Queensland which will be able to deliver low-cost energy while also creating employment opportunities within the area.

The negative attitude shown by the Abbott Government towards renewable energy belies its bias for profit and more profit. His policies show that Abbott regards renewable energy as not economically feasible and therefore unnecessary.

The “political barnacle” that Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) has become should be removed, according to former Liberal leader Dr. John Hewson. The original target saw the country aim to generate 20% of energy, equivalent to 41,000 GW, from renewable sources by the year 2030.

A crowd-funded solar power system will be installed at Kirribilli House as a Christmas gift for Prime Minister Abbott from Common Grace, a known progressive Christian group.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has previously declined to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, calling it a “Bob Brown bank on an international scale”. However, Mr.

Ever since his election to the office of Prime Minister, Tony Abbott has been riding low in most of the country’s opinion polls. He is now regarded as the least popular prime minister in twenty five years.

Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott opened the G20 Summit and critics are calling his speech a disastrous missed opportunity. He could of talked of future policies and world agreements but instead complained and whined to the world leaders.

Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, is getting a lot of flack recently due to his policy concerning coal and fossil fuel, as well his near-abolishment of the country’s efforts to shift to renewable energy.

As his slogans show, prime minister Tony Abbott is prone to shrinking major conflicts worthy of debate into three simple words. His latest is “Goodies versus Baddies” – except that coal represents the goodies and solar energy for the baddies.

Tony Abbott, in his talk at the Australian Industry Group, made it clear how he considers the energy future of the country. “I would like us to be one of the world’s affordable energy capitals,” he said.

Award-winning actress and Greenpeace supporter Emma Thompson held up a placard that read: “Tony Abbott Climate Change Is Real And I’m Standing On It,” a message directed at the Australian Prime Minister while on a campaign for protection of the Arctic against global warming in the eastern part of Greenland known as the Smeerenburg glacier.

Abbott has came under fire from medical scientists who have warned about the “serious health risks” that Australians will face if environmental issues are not tackled with urgency.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott insists that coal will be the primary source of energy in the future even as many signs point to solar power as having that distinction.

The Australian carbon tax scrapped: the carbon tax was repealed in Canberra this morning after Prime Minister Tony Abbott and the Coalition government managed to procure enough votes to push the repeal through the Senate.

CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has sweetened the terms of $1 billion in carbon tax assistance for manufacturers as Julia Gillard again faced pressure in parliament over the policy’s impact on jobs.