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Australians can watch with interest to see the if the Labor government proves as much a puppet of commercial interests as the Howard government, as Australia appoints new Coordinating Lead Author, Lead Author and Review Editor roles for the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process. (Full Article)
Deadline: 26/02/2010 (Full Article)
On the Darling River upstream of Menindee Lakes, the flow at Louth peaked on 2 February. (Full Article)
Over the past eight years, Western Australia water use had increased at the rate of approximately 3.87 per cent per year cumulative; while population grew at an average rate of 1.8 per cent. (Full Article)
On 14 January 2010, the Minister published an authorisation in the Government Gazette banning water extraction within a 5 kilometre radius of a Great Artesian Basin spring. (Full Article)
This was the first time limited supply caused a major reduction in total use. (Full Article)
Water diverted by licensed users in the major NSW regulated valleys, 1999-00 to 2007-08. (Full Article)
The Victorian Government announced the first grants from Energy Technology Innovation Strategy (ETIS) fund for new large-scale, pre-commercial Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) demonstration projects in Victoria. This was connected to the seven CO2 dump exploration licences opened for bid in March 2009, and not yet concluded. One of the offshore Release areas GIPP-01, GIPP-02 and GIPP-03: Gippsland Basin, appears above. (Full Article)
The impact of the median 2030 climate on average surface water availability across the Murray-Darling Basin would be 11 percent reduction, or 2481 GL/year less surface water. (Full Article)