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Australia: Murray-Darling Basin deal caps water buybacks to bring all states on board
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2014
AAP: A “historic” deal has been signed between NSW and the Commonwealth, securing $80m for water infrastructure projects along the Murray-Darling Basin. The prime minister, Tony Abbott, and NSW premier, Barry O’Farrell, wrapped up the agreement in Canberra on Thursday. The extra funds, which will be made available over the next eight years, will go towards water management projects and water resource plans. The NSW government and previous federal Labor government were in negotiations over the future...
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United Kingdom: HS2 tunnel could save ancient woodland, campaigners say
Posted by Guardian: Jessica Aldred on February 27th, 2014
Guardian: A short tunnel extension could save up to one-third of the ancient woodland threatened by the HS2 high-speed rail project, campaigners say.
Figures show that 32 hectares (80 acres) of ancient woodland will be lost in the first phase of HS2, that will be constructed along a 140-mile route between London and Birmingham.
But a coalition of conservation groups and the local council says that more than 10 hectares (25 acres) could be preserved by increasing the length of the planned Chilterns tunnel...
Australia: Climate Change Authority rritating gadfly to Abbott
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on February 27th, 2014
Sydney Morning Herald: To get an inkling of how serious the Abbott government is likely to take today's release of the final report on Australia's carbon emissions reduction goals by the Climate Change Authority, try finding any reference to the report - or the authority itself - on the Department of Environment website.
As with the draft report released last November, the independent authority has concluded Australia's current goal of cutting emissions by 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020 is inadequate.
Rather,...