Around The Web

Australia will hold the next auction under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) on Dec. 11-12, with spending again likely to be below the A$100-million mark, the Clean Energy Regulator said Thursday.

Documents suggest an aggressive response to possible protests against the oil pipeline amid fears of another Standing Rock

Angeline Cheek is preparing for disaster. The indigenous organizer from the Fort Peck reservation in Montana fears that the proposed Keystone XL pipeline could break and spill, destroy her tribe’s water, and desecrate sacred Native American sites.

But environmental catastrophe is not the most immediate threat.

Continue reading...

Suzlon signs 252 MW service contract with AGL To service 120 wind turbines located in North Brown, The Buff and Oakland Hill Wind farms.

The post Suzlon signs 252 MW service contract with AGL appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Automotive industry risks blowing its carbon budget within 10 years without drastic change, analysis shows

New petrol and diesel car sales in Europe must be phased out before 2030 if the auto sector is to play its part in holding global warming to the Paris agreement’s 1.5C goal, a new analysis has found.

Forecourt plug-in hybrids will also have to disappear by 2035 at the latest, according to analysis by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

Continue reading...

Yoko Ikeda and Toshio Shibata both photograph nature – but from very different viewpoints. Their striking, breathtaking landscapes collide in the new exhibition Treescapes

Continue reading...

Pumping very salty water into the ocean has surprisingly little impact on marine life. Graeme Clark, Senior Research Associate in Ecology, UNSW Emma Johnston, Professor and Dean of Science, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

ASIC says it will closely monitor the climate reporting standards of ASX-listed companies, after a review found them seriously lacking – particularly on risk disclosure.

The post Australian financial watchdog hones in on climate risk, warns companies to lift game appeared first on RenewEconomy.

While the German government is supposed to set a coal phase-out date, energy utility RWE is putting the breaks on the Energiewende.

The post Hambach Forest: the front line of Germany’s Energiewende appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Walkers and KP Snacks are among those failing to address consumer concerns over recyclability, say green campaigners

Major UK crisp brands are failing to address consumer concerns about their unrecyclable plastic packets, new research claims, with many relying on pledges that won’t come into effect for years.

The latest findings from campaign group 38 Degrees come after more than 310,000 signed its petition demanding that brand leader, Walkers, take the initiative and ditch plastic packaging in favour of amore sustainable alternative. Recent polling has found that plastic waste will soon leapfrog price as shoppers’ top concern.

Continue reading...

Alinta Energy says it has had a huge response to its call for wind and solar projects, receiving proposals and details for around  100 wind and solar projects, including some with battery and pumped hydro storage.

The post Alinta swamped with more than 100 wind, solar and storage proposals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia's second big battery has not quite completed its commissioning, but it is already showing some interesting innovations.

The post South Australia’s second big battery takes peninsula off grid, as tests continue appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL loses another key executive who saw the future of energy was in renewables.

The post AGL chief economist Tim Nelson leaves to join market rule-maker appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It may help stop the animal's rapid and destructive march across Australia, researchers say.

Following CEC's Women in Renewables Leaders’ Pledge, we spoke with the women who’ve done a lot of work in hydro this year.

The post Women in hydro, and why more are needed: “Women and men don’t think the same way” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

Doctor on nearby boat stopped bleeding before tourist airlifted to Mackay

A Tasmanian tourist bitten by a shark in the Whitsunday Islands of north Queensland has been saved by the actions of an emergency department doctor.

Dr John Hadok from Mackay base hospital was on a nearby boat when the 46-year-old woman was attacked while swimming at Cid Harbour off Whitsunday Island about 5pm on Wednesday.

Continue reading...

New genetic knowledge about cane toads could give us the knowledge we need to throw some more roadblocks in front of this persistent invader as it marches across Australia. Peter White, Professor in Microbiology and Molecular Biology, UNSW Alice Russo, PhD candidate, UNSW Rick Shine, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices climbed 6% on Wednesday, shooting back above €21 after another UK auction failed as the market continued to experience high volatility.

The New York grid operator’s plan to implement a carbon charge on the state’s wholesale power market would have only a minimal impact on energy prices and customer costs, according to a study by consultancy The Brattle Group.

The US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Tuesday finalised a rule to roll back Obama-era standards on capturing methane emissions from drilling on public lands, the second time in as many weeks that the Trump administration has moved to ease regulations on the potent GHGs.