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Day: July 9, 2013

Business
EU urges development banks to dump fossil fuels

The European Union’s Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard has called for development banks with a combined annual lending pool of €130 billion to end support for

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Britain opens major new bio fuel refinery

One of Europe’s largest bio fuel refineries, capable of meeting up to a third of Britain’s bio-ethanol demand, has opened officially near Hull in eastern

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Labor govt dismisses Abbott’s red tape plan

In reactions that could be easily predicted the Labor government has dismissed a plan by conservative Liberal-National opposition to cut red tape to boost business

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Panel rejects commercial UCG industry in Qld

Companies trialling an underground gas extraction process in Queensland will be asked to prove they can put out underground fires. An independent scientific panel has