Scientific American, 24 November 2010

Only two weeks after California voters turned back an effort to suspend the state's program to combat climate change, a cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gas emissions saw its first trade, a swap of a climate-change pollution permit for 2012.

Bloomberg, 24 November 2010

Oil prices at $100 a barrel will only trigger action from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries if they are accompanied by a supply shortage, the group’s secretary-general said.

2941. Hon Ken Travers to the Minister for Transport- (1) Have any of the studies into the feasibility of a fast train from Perth to Bunbury, provided an estimation of the cost of this project? (2) If yes to (1) — a) what is the estimated cost for the project; and (b) what were the main assumptions used in estimated the cost?