Issue date : Tue 30 June, 2020
Estimated Reading Time : 03 Min 08 Seconds
Number of items : 37
NSW govt criticised over Warragamba Dam
7 News
Tue 30 June, 2020
NSW authorities plan to bend the rules to avoid making up for the damage caused to a world heritage area that will be flooded under a plan to raise Warragamba Dam wall.
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Utility solar may be low cost, but it is even lower value
Reneweconomy
Tue 30 June, 2020
Even the Federal Government has, on paper, offered to assist with underwriting of transmission in NSW.
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Six months on from the bushfire that threatened my home, the government has taken zero action
The Canberra Times
Tue 30 June, 2020
Six months after the Clyde Mountain bushfire raced towards our Malua Bay home, I still wake up in the middle of the night. Initially it was a jolt of worry about my family's safety, thinking that bushfires are still burning nearby. Now it's a sense of despair about the dangerous future ahead.
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'A global dirt magnet': Australia is losing out from fuel efficiency failures
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 30 June, 2020
Energy titan Trevor St Baker recently warned that if the government doesn’t introduce fuel efficiency standards Australia would become a global magnet for the “world’s dirty cars”. St Baker was wrong. It’s happened already.
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Anthony Albanese’s emissions olive branch comes with prickles
The Australian
Tue 30 June, 2020
Last week, Anthony Albanese wrote to Scott Morrison, ostensibly offering to reach a bipartisan agreement on energy and climate policy. The proposal was not genuine but rather based on the absurd idea that the Coalition should adopt Labor’s policies. The Opposition Leader’s aim was to harness the popularity of bipartisanship between the federal and state/territory governments seen during the pandemic — well, at least some of the time.
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'I apologise': a climate alarmist repents in an article
The Herald Sun
Tue 30 June, 2020
Michael Shellenberger, prize-winning green auther, had this apology censored by Forbes. Read it here while you can.
On behalf of environmentalists everywhere, I would like to formally apologize for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years. Climate change is happening. It’s just not the end of the world. It’s not even our most serious environmental problem.
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AGL's carbon-cutting executive bonus scheme
The Australian Financial Review
Tue 30 June, 2020
The board of the country's biggest polluter, AGL Energy, has put a new twist on going green. It will reward CEO Brett Redman and his team for investing in renewables and selling more carbon-neutral electricity to the company's 2.7 million residential customers.
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BP sells petrochemicals business to Ineos in $5bn deal
Yahoo News
Tue 30 June, 2020
BP has sold off its petrochemicals business in a move designed to help it become a lower carbon firm.
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Coal’s share of Australia’s grid scale generation tumbles below 70% for first time
Reneweconomy
Tue 30 June, 2020
Coal-fired power’s contribution to large-scale electricity generation in Australia has fallen below 70 per cent for the first time in the history of the modern grid, a new report from The Australia Institute has shown.
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Unless we improve the law, history shows rushing shovel-ready projects comes with real risk
The Conversation
Tue 30 June, 2020
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so too is the road to economic recovery if we don’t get it right.
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Orca populations may extend beyond Bremer Bay hotspot, researchers say
ABC News
Tue 30 June, 2020
Marine scientists have released new findings into why orcas are drawn to deep-sea canyons off West Australia's south coast.
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'Nowhere to hide': South Pole warms up with climate change a factor
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 30 June, 2020
The South Pole, the most remote part of the planet, has been warming at triple the global average, as natural variability joins with climate change to produce an abrupt shift in temperature trends.
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Yahoo NewsSouth Pole has warmed three times faster than rest of planet in last 30 years
Destruction of the environment ‘could make future pandemics more likely and less manageable’
Yahoo News
Tue 30 June, 2020
Destruction of the natural environment by farming and deforestation makes future pandemics more likely, scientists have suggested.
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Their fate isn’t sealed: Pacific nations can survive climate change – if locals take the lead
The Conversation
Tue 30 June, 2020
They contribute only 0.03% of global carbon emissions, but small island developing states, particularly in the Pacific, are at extreme risk to the threats of climate change.
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Saharan dust active at home and abroad
Cosmos
Tue 30 June, 2020
Dust storms heading west across the Atlantic from the Sahara are nothing new, but the latest has been particularly large and impressive.
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Floods that killed 500,000 livestock feature in international photo prize
ABC Rural
Tue 30 June, 2020
When monsoonal floods and a corresponding cold snap killed more than 500,000 head of livestock in north-west Queensland, photographer and grazier Jacqueline Curley spent days capturing the devastation.
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Australian emissions break Paris targets even after corona quiet
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mon 29 June, 2020
The coronavirus-related drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the March quarter will not be enough to set the nation on a trajectory it needs to meet Paris reductions commitments.
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Albanese calls for united energy policy
Energy Magazine
Mon 29 June, 2020
Federal Opposition leader, Anthony Albanese, has urged the Coalition to work with Labor to develop a more united energy policy during a recent address at the National Press Club.
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Eden-Monaro Liberal candidate says reducing fuel is the only way to manage bushfires
The Guardian
Mon 29 June, 2020
Governments cannot address heat as a cause of bushfires so must focus on managing fuel loads instead, the Liberal candidate for Eden-Monaro, Fiona Kotvojs, has argued in a submission to the bushfire royal commission.
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The Canberra TimesLiberals' Eden-Monaro candidate calls for fuel load reduction after fires
Morrison’s Technology Roadmap a ‘strategy without a destination, says Cannon-Brookes
Reneweconomy
Mon 29 June, 2020
The Morrison government’s Technology Investment Roadmap has been labelled a “a strategy without a destination” that is undermining investment, according to Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes.
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'We need a destination': Mike Cannon-Brookes backs plan for 1.8 million jobs
The Age
Mon 29 June, 2020
Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, First State Super chief executive Deanne Stewart and former Macquarie Group chair Kevin McCann have backed a plan to create 1.8 million jobs through renewable energy and low emission projects.
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The Australian Financial Review'Renewables superpower': Cannon-Brookes backs green jobs recovery
Yahoo News
One million jobs plan: This industry could end the recession
Wind power more than hot air in this market
The Australian Financial Review
Mon 29 June, 2020
The $868.6m battle for wind energy producer Infigen between a Spanish and Philippines company tells you the market thinks there is value upside in renewables.
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Renewables provide almost half of UK electricity in first three months of 2020
Reneweconomy
Mon 29 June, 2020
New official figures have revealed that renewable energy accounted for almost half of the United Kingdom’s electricity during the first three months of the year, thanks in large part to record wind record generation and falling coal numbers.
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After 134 years, renewables beat coal in US – and head to 50 pct share by 2030
Reneweconomy
Mon 29 June, 2020
Coal overtook renewables around 1885 – the records are not very precise going back that many years (visual).
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Transition to a two-sided market: How the Monash Microgrid can help
Energy Magazine
Mon 29 June, 2020
Recent technology advances and the increasing uptake of distributed energy resources in Australia have provided an opportunity to reform the National Electricity Market (NEM) as a two-sided market, as highlighted in a recent paper by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Energy Council.
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SA’s ‘Big Battery’ hits final testing phase
Energy Magazine
Mon 29 June, 2020
Final testing has begun on South Australia’s 150MW Hornsdale Power Reserve, the biggest lithium-ion battery in the world, which is owned by Neoen.
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Macquarie’s Green Investment Group to develop 1GW solar and battery portfolio
Reneweconomy
Mon 29 June, 2020
The Green Investment Group, once owned by the UK Government and now owned by Australia’s Macquarie Group, will partner with UK renewable energy developer Enso Energy to build a pipeline of solar and battery projects across the UK which will start with an initial 1GW of subsidy-free solar capacity.
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Solar generation in Delhi “clearly” boosted by clear skies of Covid lockdown
Reneweconomy
Mon 29 June, 2020
Global measures enforced to contain the runaway global health disaster posed by the spread of the novel Coronavirus, while crippling to economies, have delivered a number of positive outcomes – both expected and unexpected.
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Sweet stuff as shopping centres, unis and chocolate factories move to wind power
The Age
Mon 29 June, 2020
Energy-hungry office towers, university buildings, shopping centres and even chocolate factories will switch to wind power this week in a deal brokered by Melbourne City Council.
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ReneweconomyMelbourne factories and universities sign bulk supply deal with Victoria wind farms
Record high design rating goes to SA Water plant
Utility Magazine
Mon 29 June, 2020
SA Water’s new Murray Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant has been awarded an ‘excellent’ design rating by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).
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California strikes blow for diesel powered trucks
Prime Mover
Mon 29 June, 2020
State officials in California have pushed for an extraordinary increase of lithium battery-powered trucks on its roads under a scheme to achieve carbon neutrality by 2045.
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Works on Donvale’s reticulated sewerage system begin
Utility Magazine
Mon 29 June, 2020
Excavation works have begun on a new reticulated sewerage system in Donvale, carried out by water supplier Yarra Valley Water.
The new reticulated sewerage system will improve the quality of local waterways and the environment by eliminating sewage effluent run-off.
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World’s tallest hybrid timber tower to house Atlassian HQ in Sydney
Architecture AU
Mon 29 June, 2020
Australian tech giant Atlassian has unveiled the design for its Sydney headquarters by New York-based Shop Architects and Australian practice BVN.
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Dolphin left with 'horrendous injury' after being struck by boat at Adelaide sanctuary
7 News
Mon 29 June, 2020
The Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary has pleaded for boaties to slow down after a ‘horrendous’ collision.
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Acid-spraying invasive ant on the march as funding fears to control them grow
ABC News
Mon 29 June, 2020
The fight against invasive yellow crazy ants needs funding certainty to wipe the dangerous pests out, with advocates pressing for a commitment for assistance from governments.
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Century of chemicals and Mother Nature no match for community green thumbs in Far North Queensland
ABC News
Mon 29 June, 2020
A committed group of volunteers has successfully regrown a wildlife corridor in the most dilapidated of conditions.
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The travel bubble: how to have a sustainable holiday in New Zealand
Vogue Australia
Mon 29 June, 2020
Once we have the green light to travel to New Zealand, embrace the year of change and make your trip as environmentally responsible as possible.