THOSE with solar panels are being forced to pay an extra $300 to get a new meter installed in their home. This is to access the state’s new solar feed in tariff. There are thousands of Victorians and Australians around the country that have solar panels installed. From July, power companies must pay people the [...]

FAKE Christmas trees are bad for the environment and for your health, according to Victorian Environment and Climate Change Minister Gavin Jennings. It could be a matter of decking your halls with gas and carbon because fake trees lead to the emission of more than double the greenhouse gases of a natural one. Mr Jennings told [...]

IN an amazing twist, some of Australia’s biggest green energy companies have joined forced to urge the Federal Government to get rid of their solar water heaters from a scheme designed to entice investment in renewable power. Despite the greens being all about saving power, they have taken aim at Australia’s green energy policy, The [...]

THERE has been about 1000 feral pigs killed in far north Queensland and the RSPCA supports it.  But the animal protection agency has renewed calls for more research into different ways it can control wild animals rather than just killing them. Acting Climate Change and Sustainablilty Minister Andrew Fraser told The Age the specialist squad of sharp-shooters killed [...]

GREENHOUSE gas emissions from energy production declined across eastern Australia last year because less coal was burnt. It was also because NSW cut back on coal more than any other state. It appears that there has been more of a switch to natural gas away from coal as the major power outlet. “Any decrease in [...]

GREEN activists aren’t happy with environment minister Peter Garrett’s decision to allow tourists to continue to climb the world heritage listed Uluru in Darwin. Garrett allowed tourists to climb Uluru for at least the next 18 months but was still adamant the ban would come through. Aboriginals more than anyone want this ban to occur. [...]

CLIMATE change continued to burn this week with temperatures soaring to record highs in Victoria. Melbourne equalled its hottest ever night and its hottest night for more than a century on Monday night. While bushfires were the main worry, however most were contained. The mercury topped 42 degrees celsius at Albury in southern NSW, accompanied [...]

MOSQUITOES were to blame for the infamous Bairnsdale Ulcer on the Bellarine Peninsula in Victoria in recent times. The Bairnsdale Ulcer was a inflamed red ulcer that would become bigger and bigger on the skin and become even deadly. There were many cases to be found on the Bellarine in 2006 and have since become [...]