Below is an extract from an article compiled by SBS. The Carbon Tax will be introduced in Australia on July 1. The federal opposition has…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
The difficulty with the Carbon Tax is distilling fact from political rhetoric, plus learning the new “Climate Change’ language (emissions, offsets, equivalents, sinks, taxes, ETS’s,…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
There has been so much political ‘noise’ around the carbon tax issue, that our level of understanding – our Energy Literacy – is actually relatively…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
We can’t escape the importance of the US energy security issues and policies on Australia. It impacts on our environmental sustainability, social sustainability, and financial sustainability.…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
The catholic church has entered the coal seam gas debate, citing ‘significant concerns’ about its impact on environmental sustainability, food security and health. See the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
The virtual landscape has expanded opportunities for every CEO. How? Now, for the first time in history we can all play politics. And we’re not…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
As Yergin argues in his book, The Quest, the issue that surrounds oil and other sources of energy isn’t the potential shortage, but the increasing…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Today the pressure has temporarily eased, but Iran threatening to close the Straits of Hormuz, and the impact on oil prices, again heightens fears of…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
There is not yet a realistic pipeline leading to zero-carbon forms of power, just MegaJoules of passion. Take wave technology. Environmental sustainability, yes. The issue…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Paul Sheehan, of the SMH (below), says the ‘most interesting’ explanation on extreme weather comes from a maverick, Peter Andrews, who’s views on environmental management…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Your Google searches and YouTube explorations come at a cost – Google uses enough to power a city of 200,000 people, according to its own…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Following on from last weeks’ entry about the climate change talks in Durban some progress was actually achieved on the environmental sustainability front with attendees…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Three big stories this week on Coal seam/Shale gas, relevant to the vexing public relations issues of environmental and social sustainability, as law-makers worldwide struggle…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Watch this space, folks. There may be a giant global battle brewing. The dollars at stake in the global competition for energy means that giant…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Social sustainability and environmental sustainability are both tested to the limit with nuclear power, not only because of the risks but because of the long…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
When speaking about sustainabilityPR to our IPREX public relations colleagues in Europe it is pretty clear that Australia is behind when it comes to engaging…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
An industry can’t easily progress these days unless it has community support. Politicians will normally line up behind the communities they represent (the politicians’ refrain…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
AP reports that Australian Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has told an oil and gas safety conference in Perth that Australia’s emerging CSG industry…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2014
Hot spots of water risk, according to theWorld Resources Institute, include Australia’s Murray-Darling basin (read below). We all know about the theory of Peak Oil. Does…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
Crisis PR: Daniel Yergin’s Opus – ‘The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World’
Many Australians have doubtless had a gutful of articles on energy and the issues that surround them. After all, as one of the countries that…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
Below is an excellent story in the NYT laying out the fundamental arguments why fossil fuels are here for the long term. As the final…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
It’s hard to believe that after all the angry words exchanged over coal seam gas exploration, AGL’s ‘community relations’ effort amounts to so crudely buying…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
We could expect Gillard to really hate Abbott, deep deep down. As public relationspractitioners we have watched as he has consistently scattered her key messages and…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
Hi friends, this is a valuable article for all public relations professionals working in the clean energy area, a specialty for the Sydney PR company,…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
This article is relevant for all Australian public relations practitioners working in the climate change and clean energy space. It helps with one possible reason why the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
The federal government says education, rather than legislation, is the best way to protect children using Facebook and other social media. But the government has…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 13, 2014
Hi friends, this is a valuable article for all public relations professionals working in the clean energy area, a specialty for the Sydney PR company,…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 12, 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s changed approach to working with media once in government (most controversially with boat people) is a great case study for Crisis…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 13, 2014
A case study demonstrating the importance of Community Relations in Crisis PR. From the public’s point-of-view we may have gone past the point of intelligent…
Peter WilkinsonSeptember 21, 2012
Below is a response to Thomas Friedman’s article by contraversial film maker Josh Fox. It was written as a comment under Friedman’s article in the…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 14, 2012
Well, a little more than a plan. To have a plan we first needed strong leadership, dictating good governance, which would have demanded strong protocols,…
Peter WilkinsonJuly 5, 2012
impact of the Fukushima disaster on Environmental sustainability and economic sustainability, and the dilemma for policy makers in providing enough energy to maintain standards. Fear…
Peter WilkinsonMarch 8, 2012
Slowly the facts are emerging on what went wrong at Fukushima from a crisis PR point of view after the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 7, 2012
Are you confused? Well, so is practically everyone else. Globally. There's a lot to be learnt on leadership by watching how countries deal with this.…
Peter WilkinsonJanuary 5, 2012
A critical part of Crisis PR is the recovery of credibility after an event, and the media’s role in that – something the TEPCO folks…
Peter WilkinsonNovember 12, 2011
AAP reports that Australian Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has told an oil and gas safety conference in Perth that Australia’s emerging CSG industry…
Peter WilkinsonAugust 10, 2011
With the budget behind us, we’re back to the dreaded carbon tax debate. On Saturday the Weekend Australian reported that Qantas will be forced to…
Peter WilkinsonMay 20, 2011
It used to be a big deal if there was a budget leak; now there are 'selective announcements', farmed out to particular journalists or publications.…
Peter WilkinsonMay 2, 2011
Most of our clients have in investment in climate change, some as large fuel producing companies trying to get along with the community, other as…
Peter WilkinsonOctober 14, 2010
It been an hilarious or suicidally depressing week in Canberra (depending on your point-of-view). As Bernard Keane wrote in Crikey – Dec 1 the Liberals…
Peter WilkinsonDecember 2, 2009