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Not dead yet: Miners want to “gasify” closed brown coal mine in SA
As SA nears 50% renewables, one company plans to “gasify” reserves of closed Leigh Creek coal mine, in hopes of building “baseload” gas plant.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 12, 2016

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How California oil industry ganged up to try and kill electric vehicles (again)
Global brands – including BP, Shell, Exxon and Chevron – and local oil companies spent more than US$22 million on lobbying against EVs in California last year.
Christine Ottery

Apr 8, 2016

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Will Norway ban petrol and diesel cars by 2025?
German bloggers report that the Norwegians are looking into adopting a National Transport Plan with 100 percent electric cars, buses, and small trucks by 2025.
Craig Morris

Mar 22, 2016

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Graph of the Day: Tasmania’s switch back to fossil fuels
Tasmania’s lurch back into fossil fuels deepens as the first of 200MW of diesel generators is switched on.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 21, 2016

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Tasmania’s crazy lurch back into the (expensive) fossil fuel era
Due to a combination of bad luck and rotten planning, old school thinking and – guess what – climate change, Tasmania has found itself turning to diesel generator to solve an energy crisis. The state is now paying as much for its power as a remote mine-site in outback Australia.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 7, 2016

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Coalition digs deeper into fossil fuels with new “growth centre”
Coalition pours $15.4m into fossil fuel “growth centre”, which aims to position Australia’s oil, gas, coal and uranium sectors for “the next wave of investment”.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 25, 2016

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California’s Aliso Canyon methane leak: climate disaster or opportunity?
While fixing the leak must be a high priority for local, state and federal officials, it should also provide the impetus to tackle the dispersed sources of methane from the oil and natural gas industry.
Daniel Raimi

Jan 20, 2016

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How the export boom is shaking up Australia’s gas market
You might have missed it, but last month something unusual happened in Australia’s eastern gas market.
Tim Forcey

Jan 18, 2016

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Other Good Stuff

U.S. solar created more jobs than oil and gas extraction
Census finds that even just the U.S. solar installation sector employed 77 percent more people than the coal mining industry.
Ryan Koronowski

Jan 14, 2016

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How renewables can kick industry’s gas habit: 1 report and 3 case studies
ARENA-backed report says there is a renewable energy alternative for most industry gas applications, to reduce the sector’s exposure to an increasingly uncertain and costly gas market.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 1, 2015

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