A fire at a chemical factory at Kooragang Island sent toxic smoke spilling into the air. The blaze forced a dozen workers to be evacuated and prompted a large emergency response. by Madison Scott | NBN News-News, Sport & Weather
Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely.
Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of their raw metals by young men and children working on poisoned waste dumps.
In a joint investigation by
The Independent, Sky News, and Greenpeace, a television that had been broken beyond repair was tracked to an electronics market in Lagos, Nigeria, after being left at a civic amenity site in Basingstoke run by Hampshire Country Council. Under environmental protection laws It was classified as hazardous waste and should never have left the UK.
23 April 2021
Upgrades to facilities producing explosives for the resources sector has secured almost half of the abatement contracts awarded at the latest Emissions Reduction Fund, the auction of carbon credits introduced by the federal Coalition government.
The Clean Energy Regulator announced the results of the 12th abatement auction on Friday, securing contracts for 6.8 million tonnes of carbon abatement across ten projects.
The volume was down from the 7 million tonnes secured at its last Emissions Reduction Fund auction held in September last year, and saw just one project, the Orica Kooragang Island Decarbonisation Project, secure half of the volume contracted.
The regulator paid an average price of $15.99 per tonne for the abatement, committing a total of $108 million to purchase the emissions reductions, with emissions reductions to be delivered over the next ten years.
John Gould & Jose W Valdez
Slugs are generally content to lazily munch garden greens, but one of these lethargic molluscs has recently been spotted taking to the air, descending vertically down a string of slime like a spider dangling from a line of silk.
The discovery represents a new type of locomotion never seen before in slugs.
John Gould, an ecologist at the University of Newcastle in Australia, was conducting fieldwork on frogs on Kooragang Island, New South Wales, when he found a striped field slug (
Lehmannia nyctelia) …
The gas pipeline is going to be essential for Santos to be able to transport coal seam gas out of the Narrabri to export options Kooragang Island in Newcastle is where the construction of a new gas hub has been given “critical status”.
On the same day in Narrabri, Gamilaraay Next Generation took action against Santos’ sponsorship of the rugby season.
Meanwhile, Stop Coal Seam Gas Sydney sent a letter of concern to NSW Rugby and NSW Waratahs CEO Paul Doorn that day, asking him to reconsider the “decision to sign up Santos Ltd as a platinum partner with the Waratahs for the next three seasons”.