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Kidston renewable energy hub one step closer
Genex Power’s Kidston Renewable Energy Hub in Far North Queensland has been fast tracked with the $330 million Kidston Pumped Hydro Storage project (K2H) today declared a coordinated project.
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Tesla shares slump after regulator charges Musk, seeks removal
Elon Musk charged with "fraud" by the SEC, which is seeking his removal as a director and executive from public companies.
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South Australia blackout didn’t stop energy transition, it accelerated it
Two years on from the South Australia blackout, things are not working out quite as the renewable antis might have hoped. It has actually highlighted the grim reality about Australia's ageing and vulnerable grid. If anything, the energy transition has been accelerated rather than stalled.
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Acciona uses blockchain to show stored electricity comes from wind and solar
Acciona develops blockchain system that guarantees electricity stored in batteries, and then exported to the grid, does in fact come from wind and solar plants.
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CP Daily: Thursday September 27, 2018
California’s ARB unanimously approves LCFS amendments
Stocktake of where Australia is up to with wind and solar
A full analysis of where Australia is up to with its huge pipeline of wind and solar projects.
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World Bank commits $US1 billion to develop storage in developing world
World Bank unveils $1USbn commitment to accelerate investments in battery storage in developing and middle-income countries.
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Tawny owl decline: Public urged to record 'twit-twoos'
Pollution threatens future of killer whales
OECD report: government's failing on climate change
NA Markets: RGGI extends highs as WCI continues to drop
Home remedies 'no deterrent' against slugs and snails
Will 2018 be the year of climate action? Victorian London's 'Great Stink' sewer crisis might tell us
Eggshell and copper tape do not protect veg from slugs and snails
Gardeners using methods like these to protect against gastropods are wasting their time, study shows
Environmentally friendly gardeners who attempt to deter slugs and snails from devouring their vegetables with eggshells or copper tape are wasting their time, according to a study by the Royal Horticultural Society.
Gastropods inflicted the same damage to lettuces protected with five natural methods – eggshells, copper tape, horticultural grit, pine bark mulch and wool pellets – as they did to lettuces left untreated.
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Banned PCB chemicals are still severely harming the animals – but Arctic could be a refuge
At least half of the world’s killer whale populations are doomed to extinction due to toxic and persistent pollution of the oceans, according to a major new study.
Although the poisonous chemicals, PCBs, have been banned for decades, they are still leaking into the seas. They become concentrated up the food chain; as a result, killer whales, the top predators, are the most contaminated animals on the planet. Worse, their fat-rich milk passes on very high doses to their newborn calves.
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Environmental activists airbrushed from protest history | Letter
The fracking protesters who were sentenced to over a year in prison this week are to be saluted (Anti-fracking protesters are jailed in landmark decision, 27 September). Unfortunately, the soundbite used by their lawyer, and reported by the Guardian, that “there has been no environmental protester sentenced to jail since 1932”, is simply not true.
We were among the seven campaigners first sentenced to 28 days’ imprisonment in 1993 for protesting against the building of the M3 through Twyford Down. These direct action protests at Twyford Down from 1992 to 1995 kickstarted the modern-day environmental direct action movement from which today’s fracking protests have emerged.
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