Data shows goofy Y-Gen Loy Yang A APEC protest at Melbourne electricity plant cut back capacity 600 MW, 3 September

The average Australian Victoria region price for the day of the two-coal-conveyor-belt stoppages by goofy Y-Gen, APEC climate-change protesters was not markedly affected by the 5-hour action.
Potential capacity was cut back around 600MW from a possible 1600MW-plus. The gap was filled by the gas or distallate-fuelled wprt units. This may have raised average price from [...]

APEC Sydney Harbour order: Do not stop or anchor within 200 metres of a Security Exclusion Zone area

The General Manager Recreational Boating of NSW Maritime directs no stopping, or boating of any kind in APEC security zones: the Special Event and Security Exclusion Zone” where Vessel Operators must:

not stop or anchor within 200 metres of a Security Exclusion Zone area; unless authorised to do so by a NSW Maritime Officer or a [...]

Australian Critical Infrastructure secret committees offer zero-intelligence to Loy Yang A as laughing Y-Gen APEC orange people halt giant coal plant

Opinion: Cheerful young X-Gen protestors in Melbourne, Australia, thought it all a bundle of laughs as - wearing Guatanamo-orange overalls - they simply scaled the Loy Yang A power station fence - which runs along a highway - walked a few steps to the coal conveyer belt, pressed the conveyor-belt emergency stop-button, [...]

Mon 3 Sep 2007: Melbourne, Australia power station shut down by APEC climate change activists

At 5 am Monday 3 Sep 2007, the big Melbourne high-polluting brown coal plant Loy Yang A was reported as shut down by climate change activists. The ABC in Gippsland reported a pre-dawn fence-climbing invasion of the power station, caused the stoppage of a coal loader; and that one unit of the four, [...]

APEC a “delivery mechanism for a damaging trade model”, says world’s biggest consumer advocacy organisation

Lori Wallach, director of US-based Public Citizen, the world’s biggest consumer advocacy organisation, argued  “APEC is another delivery mechanism for a trade model that has proven itself a failure for most people, damaging to the environment and damaging to democracy itself.” But the organisers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum should not fear a hail [...]

Indonesia’s delegation concerned to make sure Australian climate change declaration does not detract from December UN conference in Bali

Primo Alui Joelianto, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Asia Pacific-Africa department would lead Indonesia’s delegation of bureaucrats at the senior’ officials meetingsin Sydney, told The Australian, (1/9/2007), p. 23, he was particularly concerned to make sure Howard’s climate change declaration did not detract from the UN climate change conference in Bali in December. “It should [...]

APEC’S Sydney defence: military control of 45km airspace zone; lethal force approved to shoot down off-route civilian pilots

An HA-18 Hornet buzzed central Sydney 31 August as authorities warned lethal force could be used against errant aircraft during the APEC summit. Brigadier Andrew Smith said civilian pilots should be aware they would need a permit to enter the temporarily restricted airspace over Sydney during the September 2-9 summit, reported The Canberra Times, (30/8/2007), [...]

Japan engagement with Sydney APEC meeting may prove short: Prime Minister -on-probation, Shinzo Abe, may announce “aspirational” CO2-cuts, and dash home

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s situation at home was so knife-edged that he could not afford to stay away from Tokyo a day longer than necessary, now that his new cabinet was launched and the Diet, or parliament, was to resume its sittings on September 10. Straight after the July 29 upper house crunch. Abe [...]