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Testing had previously revealed the mine was emitting more than 11 times the legal limit of dust containing heavy metals

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The operators of Cadia goldmine have been ordered to pay $350,000 in fines and convicted of three offences after a prosecution by the New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority.

Cadia Holdings Limited, trading as Cadia Valley Operations, pleaded guilty to three offences under the environmental protection act relating to breaches of clean air regulations at the mine in central west NSW.

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Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.

Gothenburg has to pay a financial penalty if it misses certain annual sustainability goals.

Plans to develop an offshore wind farm 40km off the WA coast have gained fresh momentum, with two new partners added to the project.

The post Offshore wind bidder signs up new partners for 2GW project in Bunbury zone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A tech giant has agreed a long-term contract to buy 676,000 nature-based removal credits from an improved forestry management (IFM) project in the US, enabling the developer to buy the forest upfront.

One of Australia's oldest wind farms turns 20 today, with some of the original staff still working there and looking at another 10 years of operation.

The post One of Australia’s oldest wind farms turns 20 today, and will live on for another decade appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon pricing mechanisms could make it financially viable to harvest invasive alien trees in South Africa for use in bioenergy and biochar production, according to a study.

Labour’s measures to ban deep-peat burning aim to safeguard habitats, tackle carbon emissions, and protect wildlife, so why are hunters up in arms?

Burning vegetation on deep peat will be banned under government plans to protect nature and reduce carbon emissions.

Vegetation on peatland is often burned to create habitat for grouse, which like to feed on the fresh shoots of new plants that grow after the burn. This increases the number of birds available to be shot for sport.

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Dutton has adopted a gas reservation policy and sweetened it with deregulation of gas extraction - but the gas industry isn't happy. Here's a guess at why.

The post Election Watch – Will Dutton’s ‘methane election’ backfire? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Civil society and industry groups sealed a pact on Monday to minimise local opposition to new wind, solar, and electricity grid projects, in the hope of accelerating the deployment of renewables across Europe. 

Brisbane 2032 was supposed to be the first ‘climate-positive’ Olympic Games. But a quiet change to the host contract puts the commitment in doubt. Marcus Foth, Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The thylacine might walk again. Or Lake Pedder might rise again. The possibility of ecological restoration in the island state plays into the appeal of going back in time

There is something about Tasmania that makes it a place where people want to restore the past, and not just because Tasmanians still regularly report seeing thylacines bounding off into the forest.

Certainly, it’s a retro kind of place. The landed gentry are still a thing, the powerful families of modern Tasmania tracing their ancestry back to the original squatters, who either took the land by force or bought it from the colonial government, no questions asked. Georgian mansions scatter the rural landscape; in Hobart, convict hewn stone is a building material of choice. Nearly 70% of Tasmanians had both parents born in Australia (the overall figure for the country is 47%), and more than 80% identify with a white ancestry (65% for Australia as a whole). If you ignore the giant cruise ships, the Teslas and the puffer jackets, you could imagine yourself in mid-century Australia.

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If a tree-planting scheme in western England can match the first national forest, people as well as wildlife will benefit

The benefits for bats were presumably not at the top of the government’s list of reasons for announcing the creation of the new western forest. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, regards rules that protect these nocturnal mammals as a nuisance. Nevertheless, the rare Bechstein’s bat, as well as the pine marten and various fungi, are expected to be among species that benefit from the multiyear project, to which central government has so far committed £7.5m.

Like England’s only existing national forest, in the Midlands, this one will be broken up across a wide area, featuring grassland, farmland, towns and villages as well as densely planted, closed-canopy woodland. John Everitt, who heads the National Forest organisation (which is both a charity and a government arm’s length body), describes this type of landscape as “forest in the medieval sense with a mosaic of habitats”.

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Cyclone Alfred drives wild seas, a seagull eclipses the moon, and our Kylie performs on a trapeze: Guardian Australia looks at some of the month’s best images

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New Delhi has finalised procedures for its voluntary carbon market – or ‘offset mechanism’ – by approving eight methodologies ranging from renewables to reforestation projects, marking a major step in the operationalisation of the country's carbon market, the government said in an announcement this week.

NSW-based company unveils its proprietary microemulsion flow battery technology for the first time, promising a breakthrough in long duration energy storage.

The post Origin-backed energy storage start-up unveils “breakthrough” redox flow battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BNEF says Australia is on the cusp of a big battery boom that could deliver an eight-fold increase in capacity.

The post Big battery boom could deliver 18 GW of grid-scale energy storage by 2035 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

This immense worm moves slowly and gracefully underground and can grow to the length of an outstretched arm

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The giant Gippsland earthworm already has an upbeat campaign song.

“I am a real worm, I am an actual worm,” bangs the chorus of Doctor Worm, a late-90s novelty hit by the American indie rock band They Might Be Giants.

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Country delegates have come under pressure to defend their regulatory mandate at the 30th Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for deep sea mining, as a move from a large Canadian metals company threatens to hamper multilateral efforts.

Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests?