Ben Cubby

Ben Cubby

Ben Cubby is the Environment Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Rees gives up climate plans

Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby THE Rees Government has dumped key elements of its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including promises to force big businesses to use less energy and to set a statewide energy efficiency...

$50b question: Gorgon carbon claims in doubt

Marian Wilkinson and Ben Cubby DOUBTS have emerged over whether the giant $50 billion Gorgon gas project can safely bury its greenhouse gas emissions deep beneath the Barrow Island nature reserve off Western Australia, despite the...

Nation must embrace 'awful arithmetic' of Garnaut cuts

Ben Cubby ENVIRONMENT REPORTER THE Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said after the Copenhagen summit that "Australia will do no less and no more than the rest of the world" to reach the goal of holding increases in world temperatures...

Hunger strike drives further wedge into Coalition


Dan Harrison and Ben Cubby A HUNGER-STRIKING farmer protesting over NSW laws on land-clearing laws has renewed tensions between Liberal and National parties.