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Fortescue invests in Australian firm to develop emerging green hydrogen technology
Why Strike Energy’s fast-tracked urea plant is latest example of hydrogen greenwashing
Multi-billion urea project hailed as example of "clean hydrogen" will be almost entirely dependent on fossil gas as its primary feedstock.
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New German leader proposes a 'climate club' of leading economies that would punish free riders like Australia
Many people still in the dark over gas boilers, say MPs
Solar Insiders Podcast: Will 2022 be as strong as 2021?
The new year gets off to a slow start, as industry gears up for tighter standards.
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Victoria ruling will kill off access to solar and EV charging for apartment buildings
Residents of apartment buildings in Victoria will be locked out of renewable energy options now and in the future following a new ruling on embedded networks.
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Iris: Student-built robot rover on track to explore the Moon
Vaccine trial for killer elephant virus begins
EU carbon prices seen around €200 by 2030 thanks to Fit for 55, according to think-tank
Does Labor’s green hydrogen plan for the Kurri Kurri gas power plant stack up? | Graham Readfearn
Energy analysts say their Hunter Valley plan is just ‘an expensive way to avoid a small amount of emissions’ when there are cheaper, greener alternatives
Labor said this week it will back a gas-fired power plant in the Hunter Valley, but only if the gas is mixed with hydrogen.
The rationale for this move, according to Labor, was the Morrison government’s $600m support for the project was “risking taxpayers’ money on a gas plant that experts say will become stranded in an increasingly renewable energy system”.
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What AEMO’s long term plan tells us about prices, and future wind and solar mix
The draft 2022 Integrated System Plan provides a dramatic break between the National Electricity Market as it used to be, and the NEM as it's going to be.
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Green opportunities missed in UK levelling up strategy, say experts
Government white paper criticised for overlooking opportunities along road to net zero
The need to reach net zero carbon emissions, and the green jobs that could be created in doing so, received scant attention in the government’s levelling-up strategy, an omission slammed by green campaigners and businesses.
The mention of “the green industrial revolution and transition to net zero” came second bottom of the list of 16 priorities in the levelling-up paper published on Wednesday, promising £26bn of capital investment, though green analysts said it was not clear if any of this was new money or how it would be spent.
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Voters see green energy as key to future prosperity, shun coal and gas
New polling shows voters in Queensland and New South Wales overwhelmingly back clean energy - not coal and gas - to deliver the best economic future.
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Five Insulate Britain members jailed for defying M25 protest injunctions
Court imposes custodial sentences of between 24 and 32 days and hands 11 others suspended sentences
An activist from Insulate Britain hung a banner proclaiming “insulate or die” at the high court in London on Wednesday as five members of the group were sentenced to jail.
El Litten, 35, Theresa Norton, 63, Steve Pritchard, 62, and Dr Diana Warner, 62, were given custodial sentences of between 24 and 32 days. Ben Taylor, 27, who was due to be released this month from a six-month jail sentence imposed in November, was sentenced to another 32 days. Eleven more protesters received suspended sentences.
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EU includes gas and nuclear in guidebook for ‘green’ investments
Commission’s move widely criticised as undermining efforts to keep global heating below 1.5C
The European Commission has been accused of undermining its climate goals after it defied critics by pushing ahead with plans to include gas and nuclear in an EU guidebook for “green” investments.
Gas and nuclear were deemed bridge technologies to meet the EU’s target of net zero emissions by 2050, in long-awaited proposals on the EU’s “taxonomy for environmentally sustainable economic activities”, which were published on Wednesday.
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