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Opponents to the Narrabri gas project comments from the new federal resources minister backing the project are "ill-informed".

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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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A study finds the English bulldog has double the health risks of other dogs.

A report indicates that lots of houses in England could be lost to flooding in the coming decades.

New Zealand’s second carbon allowance auction for the year cleared at NZ$76 ($47.31), while the entire cost containment reserve (CCR) for the year has now been exhausted, as was widely predicted.

AEMC tells striking generators that holding out for supposedly higher price by waiting for a market direction may be self defeating, and likely illegal.

The post Dumb and illegal: Regulators read the riot act to striking generators appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Developers of one of Australia's first proposed offshore wind farm publish a 'visual simulation' of the project.

The post What will an Australia offshore wind farm look like? Here’s a video glimpse appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

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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”.

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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.

The post BP takes major position in one of world’s biggest green hydrogen hubs in Pilbara appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post Governments must lead on social license, says report – our energy security depends on it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thanks to an election campaign that ignored energy prices, the stage is set for the Coalition to blame Labor for the mess it created.

The post A rudderless Coalition could find destructive purpose in energy and climate crisis appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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A French bank is raising €5 mln through a structured fixed rate investment product linked to EU carbon allowances.

EU nations should consider delaying by a year to 2027 the launch of a second ETS for buildings and road transport, according to a draft proposal by France, which is currently steering member state talks.

A US-headquartered private equity firm has purchased a majority share in a European energy markets news provider.

In the first major study of its kind, the authors travelled to where renewable energy is expanding in NSW to ask communities how they feel about the changes. Rebecca Pearse, Lecturer, Australian National University Daniel J Cass, Research Affiliate, University of Sydney Linda Connor, Professor of Anthropology, University of Sydney Riikka Heikkinen, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

UN climate negotiations in Bonn have outlined several technical issues that need to be addressed to advance government-level emissions trade, including infrastructure to track trade, accounting practicalities, and other issues that also have implications for the voluntary carbon market (VCM).