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Fortescue drops massive Uaroo renewable hub as it reorganises Pilbara energy plans
Fortescue has stepped back from its ambitious 5.4 gigawatt (GW) Uaroo Renewable Energy Hub but still plans to build something on the site.
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Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Indians who need $2.1m drug to fight a rare disease
The floating desalination machines powered by the waves
Australian booking website posts new customer offsetting record
Hangover from battery party and contract for biggest solar farm crimp Neoen revenues
Neoen 3rd quarter revenue crimped by transition of its biggest solar asset to a fixed contract, and lower battery returns after a stellar performance the previous year.
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Our minds handle risk strangely – and that's partly why we delayed climate action so long
Neoen’s Capital big battery delayed due to connection issues, damages sought
Neoen says Capital Big Battery delayed until 2024 due to connection issues, with liquidated damages to be paid in a likely first-of-its type case for battery storage projects in Australia.
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Annual oil and gas licences planned with net zero commitment required
‘Loss and damage’ deal struck to help countries worst hit by climate crisis
Governments draw up blueprint for fund to be administered at first by World Bank after tense Abu Dhabi talks
Countries have agreed key measures to supply funds to the world’s most vulnerable people to repair the damage from climate breakdown.
Governments from richer and poorer countries drew up the blueprint for a new “loss and damage” fund after a tense two-day meeting under UN guidance in Abu Dhabi that ended late on Saturday night.
Continue reading...Former fracking site could lead UK’s renewable revolution
Final testing being done in project to give North Yorkshire site new life as source of geothermal energy
A former fracking site in the North Yorkshire village of Kirby Misperton, once a lightning rod for environmental protests, may soon be a new frontier in Britain’s clean energy revolution. For the first time in the UK, an abandoned gas well could begin a second life as a source of geothermal energy.
It is a far cry from its beginnings as a highly contested site where frackers hoped to tap fresh reservoirs of gas trapped in layers of shale beneath the earth’s surface. In 2016, Third Energy was granted permission to carry out fracking at an existing well but its plans were ultimately thwarted by a government moratorium on using the technology in the UK.
Continue reading...Will the planet outlive my dying laptop? | Stewart Lee
I may be in denial about my computer being on the blink, but after another hot and muggy Halloween, one thing is frighteningly clear
I fear the Apple Store. It’s a disorienting cross between a Los Angeles hotel lobby, the place where everyone over 30 gets killed in Logan’s Run and the headquarters of Hydra ™ ®. The protocols for attracting a staff member seem inexplicably opaque, like the rules for bidding in an auction, or initiating a new friendship. They induce mild panic attacks and my heart flutters as groomed twentysomethings, who could be customers or staff, waft by me, geishas for Steve Jobs’s ghost. Why aren’t there any queues? Can I just sit in here quietly and eat the things from my bag? Is there a duty free section?
In the Apple Store, I never know if a commercial transaction is taking place, or if I am just involved in a continuing discussion about my “needs”, a situation I admittedly find replicated in my dealings with my therapist and people generally. And there is now a raised area at the rear of the Regent Street branch in London that suggests a ziggurat. Here, ancient Aztecs tore out people’s hearts to appease Quetzalcoatl, a sacrifice still less demanding than the financial one required buy a new Apple laptop. When I mentioned, to the charming young man attending me, that the shop design made me think of the death rituals of the winged serpent worshippers, he just smiled, as if I were complimenting Apple’s bold aesthetics. But I will have to go to the Apple Store again. Soon.
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Continue reading...Negotiators strike deal on forming UN climate loss and damage fund
Sun Cable may make sub-sea cables in Tasmania for huge green energy export plans
Sun Cable may built a multi-billion dollar facility in Tasmania to make high voltage sub-sea cables for its ambitious renewable energy export plans.
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UPDATE – Wildlife Works suspends staff at Kasigau REDD project over claims of sexual abuse, harassment
Cruise ships polluting UK coast as they ignore greener power options
Most liners rely on marine gas oil when docked, despite claims they reduce emissions by plugging into low-carbon electricity
Cruise ships visiting Britain are frequently failing to plug into “zero emission” onshore power and instead running their engines and polluting the local environment with fumes.
The industry is under scrutiny over air pollution and contribution to greenhouse gases, with some European cities banning vessels from central ports. Cruise firms say ships can reduce emissions by switching off engines and plugging into low-carbon electricity when moored. But an investigation by openDemocracy has found that cruise ships regularly fail to use shore power at Southampton, Britain’s largest cruise port.
Continue reading...ARENA reports “unprecedented” interest in community batteries
ARENA receives applications request for $1.3 billion of community battery proposals, more than 10 times the $120 million available under its funding program.
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EPA to push ban of toxic chemical found in US drinking water
Agency had strong limits on TCE use until the Trump administration reversed them; now the agency wants to ban it
The Biden administration is proposing a ban on TCE, a highly toxic chemical commonly used in stain removers, adhesives and degreasers, and which had been found to be contaminating drinking water on a wide scale across the US.
The move comes after years of mounting scientific evidence showing TCE is “extremely toxic” at low levels of exposure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wrote in a statement.
Continue reading...Giving city dwellers access to nature is key aim, says National Trust
Charity to bring its gardens to urban areas to allow nature-deprived communities access to green spaces
Bringing glorious gardens and green space to nature-deprived people in cities is one of the National Trust’s most important roles, its head has said.
Maintaining some of the most famous country houses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has long been thought of as the trust’s central purpose, but the charity is aiming to bring its gardens to urban areas to increase access to nature, with an urban garden planned for Chelsea flower show that will model a pocket park that can be copied and rolled out across towns and cities.
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