Mackay

Renewable electricity flows from Mackay Sugar cogeneration plant

Submitted by takver on Wed, 27/03/2013 - 6:33pm

The Carbon Price at work. Mackay Sugar has officially brought online its new biomass cogeneration power station which has received funding from the Queensland Government and the Federal Government's Clean Technology Investment Program funded by the Carbon Tax. The plant is expected to produce about 38 megawatts of power: 11 megawatts to supply the Racecourse sugar mill and refinery and another 27 megawatts into the State Electricity grid, enough to supply about a third of Mackay's electricity requirements.

Geography: 
Queensland
Keywords: 
Carbon Tax
biomass
Mackay
carbon price
renewables

Punishing the people who stand up for the common good

Submitted by takver on Thu, 29/04/2010 - 10:28am

"It's a tragedy that the people who are responsible for the climate catastrophe get rewarded, while the people standing up for the common good get punished." said Greenpeace activist Kristen McDonald after leaving a Mackay courtroom this week. She was one of fifteen Greenpeace activists convicted and fined on charges of Unregulated High Risk Activity and other charges during a three day occupation in August 2009 of the Abbot and Hay Point coal terminals near Bowen, Queensland.

Geography: 
Queensland
Keywords: 
climate change
coal
Greenpeace
Mackay
Esperanza