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One year on, how good is Morrison’s climate and energy denial?
One year after Scott Morrison took the reins as PM – and appointed Angus Taylor federal energy minister – the divide over the country's energy and climate future is as deep and depressing as ever. How good is that?
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Australia's energy woes will not be solved by reinforcing a monopoly
Groups sue Trump for weakening protections of animals endangered by climate crisis
Administration’s move is a ‘head in the sand approach’ that will further imperil creatures threatened by the climate crisis
Life as a sea turtle is already harrowing. Emerging alone from a shell to crawl through a deadly gauntlet of predatory birds, dogs and ants, all for the goal of reaching the ocean, a place where fish swallow you whole and fragments of discarded plastic slowly suffocate you.
Now climate change – in the form of sea level rise, rising temperatures and fiercer storms – is adding further, existential hardships and in the US a recent weakening of endangered species protections by the Trump administration will further imperil sea turtles and other creatures threatened by the climate crisis.
Continue reading...ConfUSEd by the ESOO? You’re not alone
Is it “millions of households and businesses face being plunged into darkness” or “a 99.998% chance of no cuts at all"? Actually, you'd be wrong on both counts.
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Is Coalition trying to sell the CEFC they could not close? Apparently not
SHM report claiming the federal government’s $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation is up for sale has been hosed down by both the Coalition, and the green bank itself.
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Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row
Queensland day-time prices hit zero or below for sixth day in a row, while prices go negative for 10th day in a row in South Australia.
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WestWind taps GE to help deliver 1GW Golden Plains wind farm
GE Renewable Energy announced as co-developer and turbine supplier for "largest in the Southern Hemisphere" 800-1000MW Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria.
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Australian thermal coal exporters warned of falling demand from India
Report says outlook in India is ‘finely balanced and uncertain’ despite resources industry’s high hopes
Thermal coal exporters face “significant risk” that demand from India will decline, a report by the Australian office of the chief economist says.
It also warned of long-term uncertainties in the market considered a “great hope” by miners.
Continue reading...Catastrophic Queensland floods killed 600,000 cattle and devastated native species
ARENA backs solar hydrogen plant in Brisbane as electrolyser costs tipped to plunge
A $3.1m pilot project to produce green hydrogen via electrolysis at existing BOC gas facility in Queensland wins $950,000 from Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
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5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia
5B plans to deploy "big field" Maverick models and set solar installation "speed record" for proposed 10GW mega-project in Northern Territory
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