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Energy Insiders Podcast: The climate crisis and the energy transition
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Clean energy investors propose radical rethink of planning rules in NSW
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Fortescue to build batteries, EV chargers and eloctrolysers at site of first Ford factory
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Yates heads new venture planning $2 billion of battery storage projects in Australia
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SBTN pilot reveals benefits, challenges of targeting nature
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Why floating solar PV will play a “critical role” in land-constrained south-east Asia
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Joint venture signed to build biggest solar farm in New Zealand to date
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EUA price declines likely to be temporary as bloc prepares to price carbon content of imports –analysts
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Five examples of the UK’s crackdown on climate protesters
As UN expert says UK’s actions are chilling and regressive, we look at some of the cases
The UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders Michel Forst has said the UK’s crackdown on climate protesters is chilling, regressive and a restriction on fundamental freedoms.
We look at some of the cases:
Defendants on trial for peaceful protest were forbidden from mentioning the words climate change, fuel poverty or the civil rights movement when they were on trial for public nuisance. Several people, including a social worker, David Nixon, and the Dorset councillor Giovanna Lewis, were jailed for contempt of court when they defied the restrictions to explain their motivations for taking action to the jury.
A retired social worker, Trudi Warner, is being prosecuted for contempt of court for holding up a sign outside a court defending the right of juries to decide a case on their conscience. The decision to prosecute was made by the then solicitor general Michael Tomlinson KC, a minister and the Conservative MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole.
Stephen Gingell, 57, was jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful slow march protest on a London road. The sentence is thought to be the first jailing under the Public Order Act 2023, which includes an offence of “interference with key national infrastructure”. Gingell is appealing.
Civil injunctions have been issued to hundreds of individuals. National Highways has injunctions covering 4,300 miles of motorways and major A roads. Anyone who breaches this injunction faces imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Any corporation can apply for a civil injunction, and individuals can be punished without a trial.
Marcus Decker and Morgan Trowland made history as the peaceful protesters who have received the longest jail sentences in modern history in the UK when they were sentenced to two years and seven months, and three years respectively for public nuisance. They climbed the Queen Elizabeth II bridge over the Dartford Crossing and unveiled a banner for Just Stop Oil in 2022. The longest jail term issued to the suffragettes was three months.
Continue reading...Rio Tinto signs contract for Australian grid’s first gigawatt scale solar project
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UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest
UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders says he is seriously concerned about ‘regressive new laws’
A severe crackdown on environmental protest in Britain with “draconian” new laws, excessive restrictions on courtroom evidence and the use of civil injunctions is having a chilling impact on fundamental freedoms, the United Nations special rapporteur has said.
As the world faces a triple planetary crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution, environmental protesters were acting for the “benefit of us all” and must be protected, Michel Forst, the UN special rapporteur on environmental defenders, said on Tuesday.
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Cookstove carbon offsets overstate climate benefit by 1,000%, study finds
Cookstove projects are one of the fastest-growing carbon offset schemes but research finds carbon benefits are vastly overstated
Clean cookstove projects, one of the most popular types of carbon-offset schemes, are probably overstating their beneficial impact on the climate by an average of 1,000%, according to a new study.
Every year, an estimated 3.2 million people die prematurely from household air pollution caused by cooking with smoky fuels such as wood, paraffin or kerosene, which produce about 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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EnergyAustralia plans to build massive four hour battery in South Australia
EnergyAustralia plans massive four-hour battery in wind and solar dominated South Australia, to be built next to an existing gas fired power station.
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