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Australia has overshot three planetary boundaries based on how we use land
Market chaos as outages push coal output to record low, despite new wind peaks
Coal outages and supply shortfalls send coal generation to record lows in main grid, as price chaos continues despite record wind output.
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Carbon Farming Business Development Specialist, Elders – Adelaide
ACT reaps dividend from 100 pct renewables as energy bills fall despite market chaos
Canberra households will see their electricity costs fall from 1 July, as renewables contracts shield consumers from surging wholesale electricity prices.
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Our new environment super-department sounds great in theory. But one department for two ministers is risky
Australia’s biggest offshore wind project names new CEO
Australia's biggest and most advanced offshore wind project names its new CEO, fresh from building one of the biggest onshore wind farms.
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Carbon start-up eyes high-quality, scalable projects in emerging markets
Three ways Albanese government can ease pressure on power bills
Labor needs to launch an inquiry into coal outages, turbocharge renewables, and introduce a capacity mechanism for new dispatchable capacity.
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Sunshine state hosts best performing solar farms in May, but can’t stop record prices
The top six solar farms in the month of May were all located in the Sunshine State, but could do little to stop the fossil-fuel inspired hikes in prices.
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Peter Dutton says he’s ‘not afraid’ of nuclear debate after advocate named shadow energy minister
Ideas shouldn’t be ruled out ‘simply because it’s unfashionable to talk about them’, Liberal leader says
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Peter Dutton has confirmed that his frontbench pick for the opposition’s climate and energy portfolio signals he is up for a debate about nuclear power in Australia.
In Sunday’s reshuffle the Liberal MP and nuclear power advocate Ted O’Brien was appointed to the shadow cabinet in the crucial portfolio.
Continue reading...Ultra-polluting gas project could blow Labor’s climate target – and it just got the green light
It’s difficult to see how Labor can both embrace the gas industry and reduce emissions to its target of 43% by 2030.
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Bonn climate conference: Ukraine war no excuse for prolonging coal, Kerry warns
China's plans to go to the Moon, Mars and beyond
COMMENT: Restricting market access will damage the EU ETS
Get out and go fungal: why it's a bumper time to spot our native fungi
After winning the climate election, Labor must be the climate government the whole world needs | Bill Hare
For years Australia was a roadblock to global climate action. It’s time we returned to the right side of history
The Australian election was, above all, a climate election. It has attracted a lot of international attention on that basis – and for very good reason. Now the government has changed, all eyes will be on the new prime minister, the energy and climate minister and our foreign minister.
The climate inaction of the Morrison government attracted high profile criticism from governments such Fiji, the United Kingdom, the United States, and indeed the UN secretary general – along with many international commentators and scientists.
Continue reading...Dutton names Queensland LNP MP to climate and energy, Taylor promoted to Treasury
Angus Taylor get the Treasury role in new Opposition front bench, while the head of the environment and climate committee gets energy and climate.
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Mandated home gas connections is mandating ill health for thousands
States and territories to legislate against the mandated use in new houses and developments, and encourage existing homes to switch from gas to electricity.
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Energy consumers deserve a better deal, and machines are not the answer
We should repeal seemingly endless lists of rules and regulations and replace them with a single, simple and universal duty of care.
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Vale Brett Cuthbertson: Discoverer of winds at some of Australia’s best wind farms
Brett Cuthbertson's reports and artful maps identified Coonooer Bridge and Coopers Gap Wind Farms and his work was fundamental to many other successful projects.
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