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Labor resources minister’s support for Narrabri gas project labelled “disrespectful”
Opponents to the Narrabri gas project comments from the new federal resources minister backing the project are "ill-informed".
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“Impossible to operate:” AEMO declares suspension of electricity spot market
AEMO declares that it has suspended electricity markets across the entire NEM, because it has become "impossible to operate" within the rules.
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CP Daily: Tuesday June 14, 2022
Climate Policy Fellow, Conservation International – Various Locations
Dog health: Don't buy a bulldog until breed is reshaped, vets plead
Climate change: Rising sea levels threaten 200,000 England properties
NZ Market: New Zealand auction clears at NZ$76, CCR exhausted
Dumb and illegal: Regulators read the riot act to striking generators
AEMC tells striking generators that holding out for supposedly higher price by waiting for a market direction may be self defeating, and likely illegal.
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What will an Australia offshore wind farm look like? Here’s a video glimpse
Developers of one of Australia's first proposed offshore wind farm publish a 'visual simulation' of the project.
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Sea level rise in England will force 200,000 to abandon homes, data shows
Due to the climate crisis, within 30 years these coastal properties will not be salvageable, researchers say
Sea level rise will force the abandonment of about 200,000 coastal properties in England within 30 years, new data suggests, as the climate crisis takes hold.
These are the homes that cannot be saved, or which it would be too expensive to try to save, by measures such as seawalls and other coastal defences. Some of the areas most at risk include North Somerset, Sedgemoor, Wyre, North East Lincolnshire and Swale.
Continue reading...Thinktank that briefed against XR given £30k by Exxon Mobil in 2017
Report shows Policy Exchange, which called for criminalisation of environmental group, received money from oil company
A thinktank that received money from an oil company later published a report that advised the government to criminalise Extinction Rebellion in its tough new crime laws.
Several Conservative MPs and peers cited the 2019 report by Policy Exchange in parliament and the home secretary, Priti Patel, repeated its claims about the climate campaigners being “extremists”.
Continue reading...BP takes major position in one of world’s biggest green hydrogen hubs in Pilbara
Oil giant bp takes significant stake in $30 billion Asian Renewable Hub featuring 26GW of wind and solar and big green hydrogen and ammonia ambitions.
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Governments must lead on social license, says report – our energy security depends on it
Major new report says now is the time for governments to win communities over to renewables, or risk major delays to an increasingly urgent transition.
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A rudderless Coalition could find destructive purpose in energy and climate crisis
Thanks to an election campaign that ignored energy prices, the stage is set for the Coalition to blame Labor for the mess it created.
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