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Kite’s Amazing Milestone: 1 Million animals under our care!

Katestone’s newly released Kite has just reached the Milestone of 1 million animals under its care. Kite is Katestone’s Weather Risk Management Platform. Katestone Managing Director, Christine Killip is grateful for the fantastic support of the cattle feedlot industry.   “I’d like to thank the feedlots for their overwhelming support of our service. I never…

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Kite Feedlot Media Release

Get ready for summer with improved heat load tool   Australian feedlots now have access to a modernised, expanded heat load tool, based on the highly respected Cattle Heat Load Toolbox, or Katestone as it is often referred to.   Kite Feedlot is an online weather risk management system built on Katestone’s long-standing methodology which…

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QLD’s EIS Generic Terms of Reference (ToR) amended to give more importance to Climate and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Written by Plistina Almeida and Simon Welchman   The American Meteorological Association defines Climate Change as any systematic change in the long-term statistics of climate elements sustained over several decades or longer. The most obvious evidence of Climate Change in the world is undoubtedly the global warming, which is led by an increase in the…

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Does the Ambient Air Quality NEPM Update apply to your application?

On 15 April 2021, the National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) approved the variation to the Ambient Air Quality National Environment Protection Measure (AAQ NEPM or Air NEPM) standards for ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2).  The variation tightens standards that have been in place for 23 years.   In 1998, the Air…

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Examining climate change at regional, local, and site-specific levels

Climate Change is impacting Australia in many ways: bushfires, heatwaves, floods. But what does it mean for your location, your facility or your project? Christine Killip, Katestone’s Managing Director, will share some of the questions that our company has been asked over the years and explore the physical risk of climate change. Katestone has developed…

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Drinks with Kate – November 2020 Edition

Wednesday 25 November 2020 After a very long time without socializing, we were able to host our first face-to-face Drinks with Kate post-COVID19 this month.   A small, selected group of peers joined us for a discussion on the Electric Vehicles’ infrastructure. We have been closely watching how the roll-out of EV infrastructure in Australia…

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Ditching the dump: throwing waste management myths in the bin

Written by Simon Welchman and Plistina Almeida In line with our decade’s resolutions released in January this year, we believe it’s about time to have a closer look at our “Don’t Waste” objectives. Our goal as environmental scientists and engineers has always been to move towards the top of the Waste Hierarchy (Figure 1): avoidance and…

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Drinks with Kate – Going Virtual – 2nd edition

Friday 19 June 2020, 12:30-1:30 pm Recent social distancing guidelines prevent us from hosting our networking event Drinks with Kate events in person. We see this as a great opportunity to keep expanding its reach to interstate and overseas participants. Our focus for Drinks with Kate – Going Virtual is on delivering practical insights to…

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