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Hunt stacks Climate Change Authority with Coalition advisors and ex MPs
Coalition tried to kill the independent Climate Change Authority and failed. So, a day after complaining that the CCA board was “partisan”, it has decided to stack the board with former Coalition politicians and advisors of its much-criticised Direct Action policy.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 8, 2015

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Hunt says “inevitable” large numbers will quit grid with battery storage
Hunt says declining costs of battery storage means it is inevitable significant numbers will quit the grid. He plans to accelerate deployment of storage, and says renewable energy target will be used to force coal generation out of the market.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 7, 2015

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Coalition to accelerate battery storage in Australian households
Australian government says it wants to accelerate deployment of battery storage in households, to help reduce peak demand and deliver savings on network costs.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 1, 2015

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Policy & Planning

Coalition dumps chief climate denier Newman, Hunt still hamstrung
Maurice Newman cut as chair of PM business advisory council offers sign Turnbull Coalition is cutting anti-climate ties. But what else will change?
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 28, 2015

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No more excuses: Heat is now on Hunt
Control over the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, ARENA and the Renewable Energy Target have now been handed to environment minister Greg Hunt. With the hard right swept from power, Hunt no longer has any excuses on climate and clean energy policy.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 22, 2015

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Turnbull channels Abbott as he attacks Labor’s renewables target, ETS
Turnbull describes Labor’s 50% renewables target as reckless, Hunt continues nonsense attack on emissions reduction costs, while Coalition’s climate deniers and renewable-haters continue to run amok. Has anything changed?
Giles Parkinson

Sep 17, 2015

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Is Turnbull for turning on climate change?
In his first Question Time as PM, Malcolm Turnbull did little to shake the impression he has sold out on climate change. So has he?
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 16, 2015

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Bernie Fraser quits Climate Change Authority after difficulties with Hunt
The chairman of the Climate Change Authority, Bernie Fraser, has quit – apparently after a long period of bad relations with Environment Minister Greg Hunt.
Michelle Grattan

Sep 9, 2015

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Making up numbers: The cost of emissions reduction targets
The Abbott govt says its low-ball emissions target is best for Australia’s economy – while Labor’s would ‘devastate’ it. But is the maths right?
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 12, 2015

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Coalition calculations on Labor RET cost all wrong, says CEC
Clean Energy Council says Coalition claim Labor RET to cost $85bn based on flawed assumptions, false economics – and ignores plunging cost of renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 7, 2015

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CleanTech Bites

Chinese panel makers lament country of origin labelling
Yingli says solar industry hit by uncertainty and sensationalism, but it is time to look at the bigger picture, and build bigger arrays.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 27, 2015

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Six ways Australia is selectively reporting to the UN on the Great Barrier Reef
The government’s latest report on the Great Barrier Reef, submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre last Friday, has been carefully crafted and word-smithed.
Jon Day

Feb 5, 2015

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