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Queensland to host giant new electroloyser and green energy manufacturing hub
Climate change: Prince Charles sympathetic to protesters' anger
Halt destruction of nature or risk ‘dead planet’, leading businesses warn
Exclusive: executives demand meaningful action to protect ecosystems as UN biodiversity summit opens
World leaders must do more to prevent the destruction of nature, business leaders have warned before a summit in China that aims to draw up a draft UN agreement for biodiversity.
In an open letter, the chief executives of Unilever, H&M and nine other companies have called on governments to take meaningful action on mass extinctions of wildlife and the collapse of ecosystems or risk “a dead planet”.
Continue reading...Not even the BCA or Murdoch papers can divert Taylor from his love of gas
The Business Council and the Murdoch media come out in support of the green transition, but they can't sway the ideological monster they created.
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Huawei Global Digital Power Summit 2021 set to open on October 16 in Dubai
Huawei to announce joint actions across the energy and ICT industry chain to unlock green energy potential for a low-carbon smart society.
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Victoria Big Battery sets Australian output record as it ramps up testing
Victoria Big Battery sets new benchmark for a battery charge and discharge as it continues to ramp up testing.
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In pilot project, Japan to earn offsets from Australia-generated hydrogen utilised in Indonesia
Fortescue plans Australia’s first major green ammonia plant near Brisbane
FFI and Incitec Pivot plan biggest green ammonia facility in Australia, replacing gas with product fuelled by wind and solar.
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Commonwealth Bank, Xpansiv to build Australian voluntary offset market infrastructure
‘Gas led recovery’ could leave NT taxpayers with a $22 billion offset bill, Reputex finds
The Morrison government's push for more fracking in the Beetaloo Basin could leave the NT government with a staggering $22 billion carbon offset bill.
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Small nuclear reactors, huge costs
Even by the standards of the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA), the new report published by the country’s most influential coal lobby on the subject of small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) is jiggery-pokery of the highest order. Why would a mining industry body promote SMRs? After mining for some years — or at most decades — […]
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Renewable energy market report: Lockdowns, bottlenecks and voluntary demand
Shortfall strategies and voluntary demand are having an interesting impact on the LGC market, while lockdowns impacted PV installations and STCs.
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Underwater cables for renewables affect blood cells in brown crabs, study finds
Research in Scotland shows electromagnetism mesmerises crabs and causes biological changes that could alter migration
Underwater power cables mesmerise brown crabs and cause biological changes that could affect their migration habits, scientists have discovered.
The cables for offshore renewable energy emit an electromagnetic field that attracts the crabs and causes them to stay where they are.
Continue reading...The race to save California’s famous sequoia trees
More than 1GW of new wind, solar and battery storage registered in last three months
More than 1GW of new wind, solar and battery storage capacity has been registered in the past three months, but number of new committed projects has slowed.
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Market sees continued upside in Australian offset prices despite govt policy, survey shows
As Australia plots “gas-led” recovery, UK decides that gas is next fossil to go
Australia may be banking on a "gas-led recovery", but most other major economies are looking the other way.
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We can't stabilise the climate without carbon offsets – so how do we make them work?
Capsule of 1765 air reveals ancient histories hidden under Antarctic ice
Polar Zero exhibition in Glasgow features sculpture encasing air extracted from start of Industrial Revolution
An ampoule of Antarctic air from the year 1765 forms the centrepiece of a new exhibition that reveals the hidden histories contained in polar ice to visitors attending the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow.
The artist Wayne Binitie has spent the past five years undertaking an extraordinary collaboration with scientists of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), who drill, analyse and preserve cylinders of ice from deep in the ice sheet that record past climate change.
Continue reading...Empire Energy received $5m tax incentive for fracking gas well in Beetaloo Basin
The tax concession scheme specifically excludes ‘prospecting, exploring or drilling activities’ but the company claims new well is clearly for R&D
The federal government gave a $5m tax incentive to a Liberal-linked gas company exploring the Beetaloo Basin using a scheme that specifically prohibits “prospecting, exploring or drilling activities”.
The Morrison government’s award of a different grant to Empire Energy, a company hoping to frack in the Northern Territory, has been the subject of scrutiny through a Senate inquiry in recent months. Empire received $21m from a $50m grant program that forms part of its gas-led recovery.”
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