The Siemens and John Holland rail electrification project for the Noarlunga and Seaford rail lines is delivering the electric Traction Power Infrastructure on these rail lines as part of the South Australian government’s Rail Revitalisation project. [ + ]

Today’s sewer maintenance tools are special cameras and milling robots. [ + ]

A former winner of a green tech award has struck success both locally and overseas with its in-house designed MPPT solar charger. Sydney-based electronics manufacturer GSL Electronics won one of the inaugural 2009 Consensus Green Tech Awards which will again be presented in April this year. [ + ]

The New South Wales Premier, the Hon Barry O’Farrell, MP, officially opened Amcor’s new recycled paper machine, in Botany, New South Wales, on 1 February 2013. [ + ]

When Orica Australia needed to complete the remediation of its 12 hectare site located in Villawood, NSW, it engaged environmental consultants Enviropacific. The site was previously part of a larger site owned by the Australian Government and used for manufacturing of munitions, including TNT. Later still, the site had been used for the manufacture and handling of a wide range of pharmaceutical and agricultural chemicals. [ + ]

Environmental consultants Enviropacific were engaged when Nyrstar needed to safely remove two redundant acid storage tanks at its Tasmanian plant. [ + ]

In early September 2012, Solarmatrix personnel went on a 6400 km round trip journey through Western Australia to install a 38 kW standalone solar power system in the Kandiwal Aboriginal Community, deep in the heart of the Kimberley. [ + ]

Simons Green Energy has been awarded the contract to supply and install a 230 kWe natural gas fired trigeneration plant at Swinburne University of Technology in Victoria. The plant will form part of the $100 million Advanced Manufacturing Design Centre (AMDC) at Swinburne’s Hawthorn Campus that is currently under construction. [ + ]

Recent occurrences in Australia of severe droughts, heatwave conditions and floods highlight the vulnerability of future cities (and towns) to the chronic and acute effects of climatic extremes. [ + ]

Australia should prepare now for dry times ahead by ‘banking’ its water underground when rainfall is plentiful, according to an important new scientific study. [ + ]

A consortium of researchers led by Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick in the UK is to embark on a £3 million research program called ‘Cleaning Land for Wealth’ (CL4W) that will use a common class of flower to restore poisoned soils while at the same time producing perfectly sized and shaped nanosized platinum and arsenic nanoparticles for use in catalytic convertors, cancer treatments and a range of other applications. [ + ]

Worth Recycling is a major contractor organisation involved in projects within a range of industries, including mining, marine and the industrial sectors. A ute-mounted Aussie Hydrotek diesel-powered portable steam cleaner is an essential part of Worth Recycling’s high-pressure cleaning program. [ + ]

A team of researchers, led by Dr Mainak Majumder and Phillip Sheath from Monash University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and Dr Matthew Hill from CSIRO Materials Science and Engineering, have developed a highly porous metal-organic framework (MOF) that, almost uniquely, is stable and able to filter substances in water. [ + ]

Simple actions by consumers and food retailers can dramatically cut the 1.3 billion tonnes of food lost or wasted each year and help shape a sustainable future, according to a new global campaign to cut food waste launched by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners. [ + ]

South Africa’s electricity network requires considerable reform over the coming decades if the country is to successfully diversify its generation mix to sources other than coal to meet the increasing demand for power. [ + ]