Gas Archives - Page 22 of 23 - Renew Economy

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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Wind and solar beating conventional fuels on costs – Lazard
New cost analysis from US investment bank Lazard show wind and solar generation far cheaper than conventional technologies such as coal, gas and nuclear, and delivering much cheaper carbon abatement.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 18, 2015

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How coal and gas industry get their way in fossil fuel rich Queensland
New report explores some of the close relationships between lobbyists, politicians, public servants and fossil fuel industry executives.
Graham Readfearn

Oct 8, 2015

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An energy freedom home is a zero emissions home
Gas was once considered a clean, green and cheap fuel. Now it is no longer clean, no longer green and certainly not cheap.
Stephen Bygrave

Aug 31, 2015

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Household gas demand to fall 50% within 10 years
Report predicts domestic demand for gas power could be halved within a decade, as households switch from expensive gas heaters to cost-efficient air-con.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 26, 2015

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