7 News

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.

Reneweconomy

Even the Federal Government has, on paper, offered to assist with underwriting of transmission in NSW.

The Canberra Times

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.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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.

The Australian

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.

The Herald Sun

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.

The Australian Financial Review

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.

Yahoo News

BP has sold off its petrochemicals business in a move designed to help it become a lower carbon firm.

Reneweconomy

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.

The Conversation

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.

ABC News

Marine scientists have released new findings into why orcas are drawn to deep-sea canyons off West Australia's south coast.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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.

Yahoo News

Destruction of the natural environment by farming and deforestation makes future pandemics more likely, scientists have suggested.

The Conversation

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.

Cosmos

Dust storms heading west across the Atlantic from the Sahara are nothing new, but the latest has been particularly large and impressive.

ABC Rural

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.

The Sydney Morning Herald

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.

Energy Magazine

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.

The Guardian

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.

Reneweconomy

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.

The Age

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.

The Australian Financial Review

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.

Reneweconomy

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.

Reneweconomy

Coal overtook renewables around 1885 – the records are not very precise going back that many years (visual).

Energy Magazine

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.

Energy Magazine

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.

Reneweconomy

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.

Reneweconomy

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.

The Age

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.

Utility Magazine

SA Water’s new Murray Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant has been awarded an ‘excellent’ design rating by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).

Prime Mover

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.

Utility Magazine

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.

Architecture AU

Australian tech giant Atlassian has unveiled the design for its Sydney headquarters by New York-based Shop Architects and Australian practice BVN.

7 News

The Adelaide Dolphin Sanctuary has pleaded for boaties to slow down after a ‘horrendous’ collision.

ABC News

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.

ABC News

A committed group of volunteers has successfully regrown a wildlife corridor in the most dilapidated of conditions.

Vogue Australia

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.