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Regulator finds fossil fuel group engaged in greenwashing in defence of gas stoves
Regulator finds industry group breached Greenwashing Code with claims electric cooktops are more expensive and more emissions intensive than cooking with gas.
Royce Kurmelovs

Mar 25, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Australia lifted fossil fuel subsidies more than any G20 nation, says BNEF
Australia had biggest increase in fossil fuel support of any G20 nation over last five years, at nearly $300 per person in 2019.
Joshua S Hill

Jul 21, 2021

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Other Good Stuff

IEA’s simple message for Australia: No place for gas-fired recovery in net zero by 2050
Get ready for exponential change in the global energy landscape as a global tsunami of capital flows to support the science of climate change.
Tim Buckley

May 18, 2021

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Policy & Planning

A fossil fuel frenzy is drinking Australia’s finite water resources
Water is our life support system in a drying continent, yet the coal and gas industries consume prodigious amounts of water each day.
David Shearman

Apr 14, 2021

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Other Good Stuff

Oil major Total targets 100GW of wind and solar capacity by 2030
Oil major Total sets new target of growing its renewable energy capacity to 100GW by 2030.
Joshua S Hill

Feb 17, 2021

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Policy & Planning

Oh, the irony: Fossil fuel financier signs major solar contract with fossil fuel producer
One of the world’s biggest financiers of fossil fuel developments has signed a major solar off take deal with one of the world’s biggest suppliers of fossil fuels.
Joshua S Hill

Jun 25, 2020

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Electric Vehicles

What if we proposed a transition from electric to petrol cars?
Let’s imagine what it would be like if we all had electric cars now and some people were proposing a transition to petrol cars.
Garry Thorpe

Feb 25, 2020

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CleanTech Bites

Taylor presses nuclear button, as energy wars enter dangerous new phase
Angus Taylor and the Coalition government have taken their war against wind and solar to its next inevitable phase: They’ve pressed the nuclear button.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 5, 2019

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Coal

Coalition’s last minute energy policy continues to unravel before its eyes
The latest blow? Legal opinion suggesting federal government would need to get funding for new fossil fuel generation through parliament for it to have any legal force.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 18, 2019

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Markets

How a hidden fossil fuel subsidy is costing homeowners thousands
Did you know most states’ building codes force people to connect a new house to the gas network? The question is – why?
Matthew Wright and Paul Szuster

Jul 4, 2018

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Regulator finds fossil fuel group engaged in greenwashing in defence of gas stoves

Australia lifted fossil fuel subsidies more than any G20 nation, says BNEF

IEA’s simple message for Australia: No place for gas-fired recovery in net zero by 2050

A fossil fuel frenzy is drinking Australia’s finite water resources

Oil major Total targets 100GW of wind and solar capacity by 2030

Oh, the irony: Fossil fuel financier signs major solar contract with fossil fuel producer

What if we proposed a transition from electric to petrol cars?

Taylor presses nuclear button, as energy wars enter dangerous new phase

Coalition’s last minute energy policy continues to unravel before its eyes

How a hidden fossil fuel subsidy is costing homeowners thousands

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