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The likelihood of half of Victoria being plunged into blackout are low – but the question reveals growing tension between the energy market and its regulators. Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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.

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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.

The post ConfUSEd by the ESOO? You’re not alone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post Is Coalition trying to sell the CEFC they could not close? Apparently not appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row appeared first on RenewEconomy.

GE Renewable Energy announced as co-developer and turbine supplier for "largest in the Southern Hemisphere" 800-1000MW Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria.

The post WestWind taps GE to help deliver 1GW Golden Plains wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

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Six months after huge floods swept Queensland we can start to appreciate the huge effect they had on native species. Gabriel Crowley, Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, James Cook University Noel D Preece, Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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.

The post ARENA backs solar hydrogen plant in Brisbane as electrolyser costs tipped to plunge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

5B plans to deploy "big field" Maverick models and set solar installation "speed record" for proposed 10GW mega-project in Northern Territory

The post 5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thousands of fires are ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. How bad are they?

New technology has been developed to detect how happy the animals are.

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Connecticut’s revised RGGI regulation to implement the regional carbon market's post-2020 Model Rule changes will not be heard as planned next week by a legislative committee and could face additional delays, a state official told Carbon Pulse.

US biofuel credit prices (RINs) rose for a third straight day on Thursday on news that President Donald Trump’s administration was continuing to explore options to address the fallout from Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) compliance waivers handed out this month.

The NSW Water Minister is contesting the findings of a state government report into the health of the Barwon-Darling river.

Human-driven land clearing and climate change are sending plants extinct at a rapid rate, risking a devastating biodiversity crash. Jaco Le Roux, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Florencia Yanelli, Researcher, Stellenbosch University Heidi Hirsch, Postdoctoral research fellow, Stellenbosch University José María Iriondo Alegría, Catedrático de universidad en el área de Botánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Marcel Rejmánek, Emeritus professor, University of California, Davis Maria Loreto Castillo, PhD Candidate, Stellenbosch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Researchers say the Thomson catchment is missing out each year on the amount of water used by 250,000 people

Logging is causing Melbourne’s main catchment area to miss out on 15,000 megalitres of water each year, equivalent to the amount used by 250,000 people, a peer-reviewed study has found.

If logging in Victoria’s Thomson catchment continues as planned, that number would increase to 600,000 Melburnians by 2060, according to the research from the Australian National University.

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Exclusive: Farmers United says ‘we know in our hearts and minds’ experts are wrong about run-off damaging the reef

Queensland cane growers’ groups are backing an opaque front organisation working to undermine Great Barrier Reef consensus science, including publishing claims that “we know in our hearts and minds” that the experts are wrong.

The group, Farmers United, published full-page advertisements in News Corp Queensland newspapers this week.

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US Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveiled Thursday his wide-ranging environmental plan modelled on the Green New Deal, aiming to decarbonise the country’s energy supply over the next 10 years and ramp up America’s international climate commitments under the UN Paris Agreement and Green Climate Fund (GCF).