ALCOA of Australia Managing Director Alan Cransberg says the two issues concerning the company the most at the moment are energy security and domestic gas supply in WA and the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
01/10/2009
A RIO Tinto spokeswoman says that its Bell Bay smelter, Tasmania is concerned that the revised carbon pollution reduction scheme (CPRS) scheme does not fully address issues surrounding international competitiveness for export industries.
07/05/2009
RISKMETRICS has released its findings on its analysis of the modified Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
21/05/2009
THE MINERALS Council of Australia has come under attack for failing to accept the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
20/03/2009
BLUESCOPE’S Managing Director Paul O'Malley and OneSteel’s CEO Geoff Plummer have united to present the Australian steel manufacturers' position on the Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.
27/04/2009
ALCOA says that it will only support the introduction of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) provided significant concerns with several matters of detail are resolved.
06/05/2009
DURING a University of Western Australia forum in Perth Alcoa’s Manager of Carbon Strategy Tim McAuliffe reiterated that Australia needs a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that responds to the needs of climate change while ensuring jobs and industry remain in the country.
10/08/2009
ALCOA has acknowledged the improvements made during the passage of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) legislation.
24/08/2009
PARLIAMENTARY Secretary for Climate Change Greg Combet says that while the Federal Government will not offer further compensation to the coal industry, aluminium smelting would have up to 94.5% assistance.
18/05/2009
Mining industry leaders should end their scaremongering campaign over the carbon pollution reduction scheme, a coalition of union, environment, welfare and research groups said outside the headquarters of the Australian Coal Association (ACA).
24/11/2009
THE Federal Government says the minerals processing industry has been identified as being eligible for subsidy against the impact of carbon trading over the next three years.
20/02/2009
THE CSIRO has developed a barrier coating which will save smelter operators money in reduced consumption of petroleum coke.
24/02/2009
THE proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) will expose Australian mining companies to some of the highest carbon costs in the world, according to the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA).
30/01/2009
MINERAL miners will receive hundreds of millions of dollars worth of compensation in the first year of emissions trading, according to a new analysis.
21/10/2008
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has visited the Tomago Aluminium smelter as part of his Hunter Valley trip to discuss the emissions trading scheme (ETS) with local businesses.
02/09/2009
THE Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has backed Professor Garnaut’s climate change report, but warns the absence of a global climate agreement and transitional emissions trading scheme (ETS) could make it ‘environmentally ineffective’.
02/10/2008
THE EMISSIONS Management for the Mining and Processing Industries Workshop will hit Brisbane’s Mercure Hotel from 5 to 7 November 2008.
16/09/2008
A Tasmanian smelter that announced it would go under with the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has prompted the state’s premier to point the finger at his federal Labor colleagues.
18/11/2008
THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) has released a report studying why some cokes appear to be particularly susceptible to weakening in the blast furnace.
05/08/2009
NORSK Hydro met with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on 7 April 2009 to discuss concerns over the emissions trading scheme.
07/04/2009