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Royce Kurmelovs is an Australian freelance journalist and author.

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“Last ditch:” Australia’s richest woman takes on local environment laws in Canada coal power play
A push by Gina Rinehart’s Hancock group to open The Rockies to coal mining faces growing resistance from ranchers, First Nations peoples and environmentalists.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 27, 2025

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Fossil fuel lobby shares global “toolbox of tactics” to fight Victoria’s gas phaseout
Fossil fuel companies in Australia and their industry associations have been swapping notes with their international counterparts to stop phaseout of gas in homes.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 24, 2025

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“War on woke banks:” Macquarie joins mass exit from net zero alliance. Will Australia’s Big Four follow suit?
Two of the five Australian banks remaining in the Net Zero Bank Alliance are sending mixed signals about their future involvement after Macquarie pulled out.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 13, 2025

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Policy & Planning

NT strips funding from green groups, boosts fossil fuels, in foretaste of Dutton administration
A sign of what’s to come? Northern Territory government moves to strip environmental groups of funding and push through reforms to expand fossil fuel extraction.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 13, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Woodside’s claim that gas displaces coal not borne out by evidence – instead it displaces renewables
Woodside boss repeats claim that Australian gas exports are helping to displace coal in Asia. But this is not what the evidence suggests.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 7, 2025

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Policy & Planning

“Golden age of gas” has not paid off for Australian consumers, manufacturers
Despite the promised riches from Australia’s east coast gas export gambit, new report finds main result has been “perennial threats of shortages” and higher prices at home.
Royce Kurmelovs

Feb 6, 2025

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“Like a Corolla with racing tyres:” Why Australia’s outdated electricity market fails renewables
Australia’s electricity market is old, outdated and not doing enough to drive investment in the renewable energy needed for the country to hit its climate targets.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 30, 2025

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Former Miss America’s Australian nuclear tour clouded by Chinese AI blow to her employer
The company that employs the former Miss America spruiking nuclear in Australia has taken a market hit from the China breakthrough in Ai technology.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 30, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Old king coal risks leaving Australia “in the dark” as aging power plants grow unreliable
New research reveals more than 60% of Australia’s remaining coal power fleet is more than 40 years old, with rapidly diminishing reliability driving outage risks.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 23, 2025

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Renewables

Australian outfit seals “monumental deal” to buy electrolysers for giga-scale green ammonia project
Allied Green Ammonia celebrate signing the “monumental deal” with Plug Power that will form the core of its huge green hydrogen-to-ammonia plant in the NT.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 17, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Gas industry cooks up a “culture war” as the electrification of everything gathers pace
Claims electric cooktops are vastly more expensive and more emissions intensive than cooking with gas are being called out as “potentially misleading,” as the fossil fight against home electrification ramps up.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 17, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Peter Dutton’s “always on” nuclear power is about as reliable as wind and solar – during a renewables drought
New analysis finds modern nuclear power plants are, on balance, about as “always on” as wind and solar farms – if those wind and solar farms were in the midst of a very bad renewable energy drought.
Royce Kurmelovs

Jan 14, 2025

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