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Quebec proposes throttling free allocation, adding consignment for cap-and-trade emitters
Dominion targets July 31 for end of RGGI compliance obligations
Energy transition: How to combine great renewables resources with even better policies
Despite being in the grip of an "energy war," Europe mostly provides the renewables policy framework Australia should aspire to.
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Australian Conservation Foundation names Mount Isa the most polluted postcode in the country
Mount Isa Mines responsible for 91% of emissions in the outback city despite having an ‘industry-leading air quality management framework’
Mount Isa has been named the most polluted postcode in Australia in a new report from the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF).
The ACF said the outback city is one of four Queensland locations listed among the Top 10 most polluted postcodes in the country, alongside Gladstone, Stanwell and Tarong.
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VCM Report: Market continues slide as tech credits fall to 9-month low
Ratings agency assigns views to two more hydro projects
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China sees biggest drop in thermal power generation in 7 years as lockdowns sting
Johnson’s ‘jet zero’ plan unrealistic and may make UK miss CO2 targets – report
Ministers instead urged to focus on reducing flights and halting airport expansion to cut carbon emissions
The UK government’s “jet zero” plan to eliminate carbon emissions from aviation relies on unproven or nonexistent technology and “sustainable” fuel, and is likely to result in ministers missing their legally binding emissions targets, according to a report.
The study from Element Energy, which has worked for the government and the climate change committee in the past, says instead of focusing on such unreliable future developments, ministers should work to reduce the overall number of flights and halt airport expansion over the next few years.
Continue reading...Cumbria coalmine redundant before it even opens, say campaigners
Friends of the Earth says there will be no market for Whitehaven coal as Europe’s steelmakers move to ‘green steel’
A new coalmine proposed for Cumbria is likely to be redundant before it even opens because the steelmakers that are its target market are moving so rapidly away from fossil fuels, analysis from green campaigners claims.
Steelmakers across Europe are moving to “green steel”, which uses renewable energy and modern techniques to avoid the need for coking coal of the type that the proposed mine in Whitehaven would produce.
Continue reading...Iceland urged to ban ‘blood farms’ that extract hormone from pregnant horses
EU concern over ‘cruel’ practice of taking blood from mares to create hormone products that increase reproduction in farmed animals
Iceland is under pressure to ban the production of a hormone extracted from pregnant horses, a practice that has been described as “cruel” and “animal abuse”.
The hormone is used by farmers across the UK and Europe to increase reproduction in pigs, cows and other female farm animals.
Pregnant Mare Serum Gonadotropin (PMSG) is extracted from pregnant horses in Iceland during the summer at “blood farms”, before being converted into powder and shipped around the world.
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Rejection of Arctic mine expansion bid offers hope for narwhal population
Conservationists and Inuit community relieved at decision on Canadian iron mine that threatened ‘extirpation’ of cetacean
The expansion of an iron ore mine in the Arctic that would have increased shipping and led to the “complete extirpation of narwhal” from the region has been blocked.
After four years of consultations and deliberations, the Nunavut Impact Review Board rejected a request from Baffinland Iron Mines Corp asking to significantly increase mining on the northern tip of Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada. The area is home to one of the world’s richest iron ore deposits, and the densest narwhal population in the world.
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Australian wind market takes off again as projects and turbines get bigger
The wind energy industry is having its best year to date, and project sizes and turbines are getting bigger.
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