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Carbon credit delivery to Australia’s ERF surpasses 50 mln
Coalition passes on Teslas to pick diesels for new COMCAR fleet
COMCAR fleet, that serves Australia's politicians snubs EVs to choose "fuel-efficient" BMW diesel sedan after "desk-top" assessment rejects Tesla EVs.
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Welcome to Taylor-ball: How the game has changed in Australia’s energy markets
Coalition says it's "all about markets", but nearly every action it takes is effectively blocking new energy investment. And the biggest bollard is Angus Taylor's UNGI scheme.
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Queensland hails Shell’s first ever solar farm – which will “power gas plants”
Construction begins on Shell's first global investment in "industrial scale" solar – a 120MW PV farm in Queensland that will be used to power the state's gas plants.
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Oil giant Total flexes renewable muscle with stake in Adani solar portfolio
French oil and gas giant extends reach into renewables in $US510m deal with Adani Group giving it 50/50 ownership of more than 2GW of solar capacity in India.
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Windlab told to wear costs of Kennedy project delays in key ruling for renewables industry
Queensland adjudicators rule developers of Kennedy Energy Park must pay contractors $7.5M despite ongoing delays to project completion.
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World’s largest offshore wind turbine clocks new 24-hour generation record
World's biggest turbine sets a new record for generation over a 24-hour period - enough to meet the power needs of more than 30,000 households on its own.
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Climate change: Loss of bumblebees driven by 'climate chaos'
CP Daily: Thursday February 6, 2020
Fireflies face extinction risk - and tourists are partly to blame
Poorer households may get help on energy bills
Climate Policy Manager, Office of Sustainability & Environment, City of Seattle – Seattle
NA Markets: CCAs continue bullish trend with speculative purchases, RGGI falls on emissions data
Finland’s utility Fortum goes emissions-free over second half of 2019
Trump finalizes plans to open Utah monuments for mining and drilling
Lawsuits are pending from groups who have challenged the constitutionality of shrinking Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante
Plans finalized on Thursday for two national monuments in Utah downsized by Donald Trump would ensure that lands previously off-limits to energy development will be open to mining and drilling.
The move comes despite pending lawsuits from conservation, tribal and paleontology groups, who have challenged the constitutionality of the president’s action. The Trump administration slashed the size of Bears Ears national monument by 85% and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument by nearly half in December 2017, in what represented the largest elimination of public lands protections in US history.
Conservation groups criticized the Trump administration on Thursday for spending time on management plans they believe will become moot when the court sides with their assertion that Trump misused the Antiquities Act to reverse decisions by previous presidents.
Continue reading...Tesla could be worth $6 trillion in four years if it can land autonomous driving
The Driven Tesla’s share price surge over the past few days, and the past year, has stunned the financial markets and the automotive industry. But some analysts believe that we’ve seen nothing yet, and if Tesla can land its “full self driving” technology, and lead the switch to autonomous vehicles, the stock could be worth...
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Largest maker of pesticide linked to brain damage in kids to stop producing chemical
Announcement comes after Trump administration reversed plans to ban chlorpyrifos and rejected scientific conclusions of experts
The world’s largest manufacturer of chlorpyrifos, an agricultural pesticide linked to brain damage in children, has announced that it will stop producing the chemical by the end of the year.
The announcement on Thursday by Corteva, the corporation formed from a Dow Chemical and DuPont merger, comes after the Trump administration reversed regulatory plans to ban the pesticide and rejected the scientific conclusions of US government experts.
Continue reading...Refinitiv hires former energy and carbon analyst to lead European gas research
Terror police's Extinction Rebellion 'risk report' sent out a year ago
Police say Rising Up report was commissioned as group had a ‘large following’ and concluded XR was not a threat
Counter-terrorism chiefs ordered a formal assessment of whether Extinction Rebellion was a national security threat one year ago and then sent a secret report about the group to police forces, the Guardian has learned.
The revelation shows that counter-terrorism police’s interest in the non-violent climate emergency group began earlier and was more extensive than previously thought.
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