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Snowy board gives a tick to Snowy 2.0, as NSW and Tasmania turn focus on pumped hydro
Snowy board gives tick of approval to Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, but final call remains with government owner, and Coalition not saying if the project stacks up.
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Coal
Coalition frames underwriting tender to choose what it wants, including coal
Coalition underwriting documents allow government to pick and choose its favoured projects and adjust the criteria to suit. Even emissions intensity may not be a factor.
Australia joins US to promote fossil fuels at UN climate conference - just days after remaining silent as US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Kuwait refused to acknowledge a key...
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Fossil nations sideline science at Katowice, even as emissions rise and warming accelerates
In a deadly diplomatic strike, big oil and gas nations took a key scientific report out of the Katowice text, replacing it with an ambiguous formulation that merely notes...
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Labor “safeguard mechanism 2.0” likely to be short, but cheaper than EU ETS
A scaled up ALP baseline-and-credit scheme for industry is modelled to be short from day one, with domestic offsets the marginal source of emissions reductions.
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Western Australian Government
WA backflips, reveals plan to develop new state climate policy
Just weeks after saying it wouldn't, McGowan government reveals plans to release a new, explanded and upgraded climate policy over the next 12 months.
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Energy minister’s wife says rolling blackouts needed to teach lefties a lesson
Energy minister's wife says rolling blackouts are needed to prove left-wing populist policies are wrong.
British-Dutch oil and gas megalith reveals plan to develop new, shorter-term Net Carbon Footprint targets – that will be tied to executive remuneration.
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Coalition scuppers Greens, Labor efforts to block new coal
Greens-led, Labor-backed effort to block Coalition from underwriting coal-fired generation in Australia narrowly defeated in Parliament.
Politicians around Australia are proposing ambitious plans to export renewable energy from Australia, using high-voltage power lines laid under the oceans. But will this work?