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Bowen plays down power price fears, fans flames of hope and hype from gas lobby
Federal energy minister seeks to downplay power price fears, and provides some nuggets to feed the gas industry chooks.
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Remote renewable hydrogen project reaches critical milestone with water supply deal
WA renewable hydrogen project reaches critical milestone, securing more than its needed supply of water for stage one of the project.
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EnergyAustralia finds smarter platform for zero down home solar and battery offering
EnergyAustralia shifts to a new, more future focused billing and data platform for its zero upfront cost solar and battery offering, Solar Home Bundle.
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Another big battery wanted to help replace Australia’s biggest coal generator
NSW is launching a new tender - likely for a big battery - focused on the "firming" gap created by the planned retirement of Australia's biggest coal generator.
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Ruthless Chris Hipkins backpedals on climate action as New Zealand elections near | Henry Cooke
Jacinda Ardern called climate change the ‘nuclear-free moment’ of her generation. Her replacement doesn’t seem so sure
Chris Hipkins loves to cycle.
New Zealand’s newish prime minister, who stepped into the job after Jacinda Ardern’s shock resignation earlier this year, has been pedalling the 30km from his home in Upper Hutt to parliament for years. It’s not a particularly safe route, with many sections where Hipkins would be riding right alongside 100kmh traffic. It’s this kind of danger that stops cycle commuting from being particularly mainstream – just 2% commuted by bike at the last census – but this is far from a political priority for Hipkins. He loves to cycle, but the main thing he wants to do is win.
Continue reading...UK swan conservation success gives cause for hope
Turkey earthquake: UK team to assess building damage
Thousands of our native plants have no public photographs available. Here's why that matters
New carbon accounting tool takes aim at elusive Scope 3 emissions
Australian carbon accounting outfit teams with Schneider Electric to create software that allows businesses to track their full carbon footprint.
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Soil carbon credit platform receives $16 mln from French hedge fund
RGGI Market: RGAs recover after touching 6-mth low in wake of US bank collapse, weak auction
If we perfect cultivated meat, we could hedge against food shortages as climate chaos intensifies
VCM Report: Prices edge lower amid thin liquidity
Brussels shuffles timings in packed week of EU climate-related proposals
Willow Project: US government approves Alaska oil and gas development
COMMENT: The need for clarity around corporate climate claims: a review of the defining elements of corporate climate claims
Plans by Westminster to block Scottish bottle deposit scheme a ‘travesty’
Environmental campaigners furious Alister Jack intends to deny trade exemption for bottle recycling proposals
Blocking the Scottish deposit return scheme for bottles would be an environmental travesty, campaigners have said, in a growing backlash to the UK government plans to undermine the project.
The charity City to Sea, which has been pushing for a deposit return scheme (DRS) to tackle plastic pollution, said the UK government could have avoided the clash with Scotland by working with the devolved countries to deliver a unified deposit scheme years ago. Instead Westminster had repeatedly delayed its own deposit scheme, which was only coming into force in 2025 – seven years after it was first promised by ministers.
Continue reading...Coal burn in Turkey hits record high as Ankara turns to Russia for imports
UK river levels already at record lows forecast to be ‘devastated’ by dry spring
Campaigners warn that government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies
River levels across the UK have been at record lows and are likely to be “devastated”, as new data forecasts broadly dry weather until at least May.
Campaigners have warned that the government and water companies have not done enough to conserve water supplies by building reservoirs and fixing leaks, as months of low rainfall could cause some areas to run out of water.
Continue reading...I’ve watched the Murray-Darling for 30 years and I’ve never seen carp numbers like this
The great flood of late 2022 changed the ecology of the basin’s rivers, and not in a good way
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As a fish ecologist who lives on the northern shoreline of Lake Cargelligo in western New South Wales, I’ve been fortunate to have had a front-row seat to the ever-changing drama of all aspects of the Murray-Darling Basin over the last 30 years.
It’s never been more dramatic than this past spring and summer.
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