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  • Abbott’s energy plan will encourage consumers to quit the grid

    Abbott’s energy plan will encourage consumers to quit the grid

    Energy White Paper dammed by Professor Ross Garnaut for promoting coal at expense of solar, and shaping tariffs in a way that will simply encourage consumers to quit the grid.
    Giles Parkinson
    Apr 15, 2015
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  • Australia’s energy productivity plan: great idea, but is it ambitious enough?

    Australia’s energy productivity plan: great idea, but is it ambitious enough?

    Australia is bidding to boost energy productivity by 40% by 2030, but other countries are already doing more.
    Alan Pears
    Apr 13, 2015
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  • Could Australia become a dumping ground for high-emission vehicles?

    Could Australia become a dumping ground for high-emission vehicles?

    The White Paper has left out one obvious policy that could help: mandatory greenhouse emissions standards for all imported new and second-hand vehicles.
    Anna Mortimore
    Apr 10, 2015
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  • Abbott’s energy white paper focuses on fossil fuel favourites

    Abbott’s energy white paper focuses on fossil fuel favourites

    The Abbott government’s energy white paper focuses on the old favourites – gas, coal and nuclear, and ignores climate. Wind energy gets a single mention, while rooftop solar is dammed for “cross subsidies”. But it does acknowledge that battery storage will create a “paradigm shift” that will require energy utilities to change their business models.
    Giles Parkinson
    Apr 8, 2015
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  • Running on empty: Australia’s dependence on imported fossil fuels

    Running on empty: Australia’s dependence on imported fossil fuels

    Report calls for development of alternative liquid fuels, including a renewable energy-based infrastructure for electric vehicles, to break Australia’s unhealthy dependence on imported fuel. But it notes that despite the threat to Australia’s “way of life”, nothing has been done.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Feb 24, 2014
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  • Australia’s Energy White Paper – a prescription for poor health.

    Australia’s Energy White Paper – a prescription for poor health.

    The energy white paper process is flawed. The hidden costs of health impacts are barely considered, if mentioned at all.
    George Crisp
    Feb 12, 2014
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  • When will Australians finally stop wasting our energy?

    When will Australians finally stop wasting our energy?

    We take it for granted that we’ll have affordable power and fuel for as long as we want them.
    Alan Pears
    Jan 31, 2014
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  • Ideology drives Abbott budget and energy measures
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    Ideology drives Abbott budget and energy measures

    Abbott claims smart policy, not ideology, will drive major policy decisions. So why insist on closing the CEFC even after admitting it will make money?
    Giles Parkinson
    Dec 18, 2013
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  • If I ran an electricity network…

    If I ran an electricity network…

    Electricity network operators are the whipping boys of the industry, with some justification. How could they become part of the solution, and not the problem?
    Alan Pears
    Mar 27, 2013
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