Issue date : Wed 10 February, 2021
Estimated Reading Time : 03 Min 39 Seconds
Number of items : 43
Coalition reboots controversial inquiry into Australian banks' climate policies
The Guardian
Wed 10 February, 2021
Sources say resources minister Keith Pitt is trying to ‘strengthen’ the inquiry that stalled after backbench Liberals pushed back
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Another refinery closure shines spotlight on Angus Taylor’s refusal to embrace EVs
Reneweconomy
Wed 10 February, 2021
US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil is set to announce today the long-anticipated closure of its Altona oil refinery, long thought to be uneconomic but hit directly by the COVID19 pandemic and the resultant drop in oil demand across the world.
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Canavan denies wedging leader over climate
7 News
Wed 10 February, 2021
Nationals senator Matt Canavan denies trying to wedge his leader over commitments to climate change targets.
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PerthnowThe Canberra Times
The Newcastle Herald
The West Australian
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'It's an ecological wasteland': offsets for Sydney toll road were promised but never delivered
The Guardian
Wed 10 February, 2021
The M7 was supposed to be offset by environmental protection 15 years ago. Leaked documents show that never happened
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ANZ's move to cease financing the Port of Newcastle highlights the Hunter's need for new jobs
The Newcastle Herald
Wed 10 February, 2021
The federal Coalition government has for some time resisted the notion that coal is on the way out.
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Investors pour in ETFs as Biden firms up climate change policy
Money Management
Wed 10 February, 2021
The Biden’s administration firm stance on climate change policies has driven investors to pour in ETFs which are ‘driving the future’ such as ETF Securities’ ETFS Battery Tech & Lithium ETF, the firm said.
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AEMO names UK-based renewable energy and transition expert as new CEO
Reneweconomy
Wed 10 February, 2021
The Australian Energy Market Operator has named a UK-based Australian expert in renewable energy and grid transition as its new chief executive officer, replacing the former CEO Audrey Zibelman who left last December to take up a role with Google’s future technology division known as X.
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Networks gear up for electric vehicle grid demands
Sustainability Matters
Wed 10 February, 2021
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $1.6 million in funding to Jemena to undertake a residential electric vehicle (EV) charging trial with four other electricity networks in the ACT, Victoria and Tasmania.
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Australia must control its killer cat problem. A major new report explains how, but doesn’t go far enough
The Conversation
Wed 10 February, 2021
Australia is teeming with cats. While cats make great pets, and can bring owners emotional, psychological and health benefits, the animals are a scourge on native wildlife.
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'Screaming in pain': Koala found with horrifying burns on golf course
ABC News
Wed 10 February, 2021
WARNING - DISTURBING CONTENT: Authorities are investigating after a koala was found at a Victorian golf course with severe burns and a tar like substance caked on his genitals.
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Pollen likes the heat
Cosmos
Wed 10 February, 2021
Climate change is causing allergy seasons to start earlier, last longer, and be more intense, according to a new study from the University of Utah.
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Rescuers use bulldozers to open up tunnel where dozens are trapped after Himalayan glacier collapse
ABC News
Wed 10 February, 2021
Rescuers raced to free around 35 Indian construction workers trapped in a tunnel, two days after the hydroelectric dam they were helping to build was swept away by a wall of water from a collapsed glacier that barrelled down a Himalayan river.
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Questions raised over bid to extract 40,000 megalitres of water a year from arid Central Australia
ABC News
Wed 10 February, 2021
An application to use 40,000 megalitres of water a year for a major fruit and vegetable project in Central Australia should be rejected, according to a water expert and a key Indigenous group.
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Australia Zoo's Robert Irwin wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award
ABC News
Wed 10 February, 2021
Australia Zoo's Robert Irwin has won the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award with a drone image of a raging Cape York bushfire.
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‘Punch in the face’: Canavan lashes foreign powers over net zero
News.com.au
Tue 9 February, 2021
Australia should stand up to foreign powers threatening to “punch it in the face” over climate change, an outspoken Nationals senator says.
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Confected Nationals climate debate ramps up pressure on McCormack
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 9 February, 2021
There are two ways to make sense of the revolt among some of the Nationals over Scott Morrison’s declaration his government will “preferably” commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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The AgeThe Brisbane Times
WAToday
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ReneweconomyNationals ready to sell out farmers for coal in push for zero-carbon carve out
No law to set target: Ministers stare down Nats’ complaint on carbon
The Sydney Morning Herald
Tue 9 February, 2021
Federal ministers are planning to neutralise a backbench threat on climate change by making sure a new carbon target will not be mandated by law, avoiding a vote in Parliament that could rock the government.
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The AgeThe Brisbane Times
WAToday
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'Benefits outweigh the costs' of acting on climate change: Labor MP
Sky News Australia
Tue 9 February, 2021
Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite says unless the federal government moves to adopt a target to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, Australian industry and the economy will suffer a significant loss.
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ACT budget 2020-21: New service to help businesses switch fleets to zero-emission vehicles part of climate change initiatives
The Canberra Times
Tue 9 February, 2021
The ACT government will establish a new service to provide advice to Canberra businesses and community organisations moving their transport fleets to zero-emissions vehicles.
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Funding boost for WA FOGO bins
Inside Waste
Tue 9 February, 2021
The Western Australian Government has ignited the 2021 Better Bins Plus: Go FOGO funding round for local governments to support the transition to three-bin FOGO kerbside collection services. The additional funding builds on the success of a similar funding round delivered in 2020.
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Tasmania flags split-responsibility CRS
Inside Waste
Tue 9 February, 2021
The Tasmanian Government has revealed its preferred model for a container refund scheme, which would see a 10 cent refund on recycled drink containers and the government tendering for the collection network.
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Same sad farce on climate, with worse sets and poorer actors
Crikey
Tue 9 February, 2021
Is it 2009 or 2021? We're stuck having the same arguments about climate policy all over again. Only now they're even dumber.
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Australia's climate wars were always stupid. Now they've got even dumber
The Guardian
Tue 9 February, 2021
Climate action wreckers who used to rant about real things – carbon pricing, a national energy guarantee – are spouting about policies that don’t even exist.
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Australians should be worried about future emissions. To be told otherwise is absurd
The Guardian
Tue 9 February, 2021
By not caring about 2050, our politicians are announcing their indifference to a world in which children have become parents
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Elon Musk funds $100 million competition to find new technology to capture carbon
News.com.au
Tue 9 February, 2021
It's the billionaire’s biggest philanthropic commitment to date as the race is on to tackle the brutal impact of climate change.
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From fire to ice: Suncorp gets the weather wrong again
Reneweconomy
Tue 9 February, 2021
The growing severity and unpredictability of extreme weather has knocked an extra $86 million off Suncorp’s half year accounts, prompting the insurer to renew calls for more government action on climate change.
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Climate risk sees ANZ divest from Port of Newcastle, the largest thermal coal terminal in the world
ABC News
Tue 9 February, 2021
The ANZ bank has pulled out of funding the Port of Newcastle in what is being interpreted as a significant rebuke of the coal industry and its exposure to climate risk.
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Could pumped hydro come to the rescue of failing coal mines?
Reneweconomy
Tue 9 February, 2021
Meeting Australia’s need for more energy storage capacity could also help answer the question of what to do with decommissioned coal mines – at least according to the reported plans of billionaire media mogul Kerry Stokes.
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Here’s a blueprint for an “impossible” sustainable affordable off-grid house. In the inner city
The Fifth Estate
Tue 9 February, 2021
Take a dingy old workers cottage on a tight site in Sydney’s inner west suburbs of Newtown, ambitions for an off-grid oasis and a tight budget. Sounds unrealistic? Not for Laura Ryan.
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Hemp houses low-impact, fireproof, termite-proof and cost-effective, says couple
ABC News
Tue 9 February, 2021
When Alexia Jankowski and her partner Ben Whitaker decided to build a low-impact house in the hills, they turned to hemp — and say they hope one day their "very alternative building product" will be seen as mainstream.
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The evidence is in – we need the human factor to achieve sustainable buildings, WSU says
The Fifth Estate
Tue 9 February, 2021
You’d think that people in a green rated building would be keen to maximise the energy performance of their building p- switch off lights and so on. Not so, these researchers found, among other curious patterns.
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Kangaroo Island eco-pod proposal reaches agreement, but were 'the scales tipped'?
ABC News
Tue 9 February, 2021
Controversial hiker's accommodation will be built in a Kangaroo Island (KI) national park after a court case was resolved with compromise, but the State Government has been accused of shifting the goalposts to leave opponents little choice.
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Bluebottle season swarms Sydney beaches, what to do if stung
News.com.au
Tue 9 February, 2021
After days of the NSW coastline being stormed by an armada of bluebottles, experts say the summer of potential stings isn’t over just yet.
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More funnel-webs needed for antivenom production
Australian Geographic
Tue 9 February, 2021
The Australian Reptile Park on the Central Coast of New South Wales is calling on residents to catch funnel-webs for milking and the generation of antivenom.
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Value nature or become extinct: Landmark report puts humanity’s ecological footprint at the heart of economics
The Fifth Estate
Tue 9 February, 2021
It’s official: biodiversity is at the heart of economics. Failure to acknowledge this up to now has led to uncountable loss of species. A landmark report commissioned by the British government finally acknowledges this. But will it make any difference?
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India disaster highlights pressure on Asia's great rivers
Yahoo News
Tue 9 February, 2021
A glacial burst that triggered a deadly flash flood in the Indian Himalayas at the weekend was a disaster waiting to happen, and one likely to be repeated in a region transformed by climate change and unchecked infrastructure development, experts warn.
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NSW Government cuts flood plain harvesting in the Gwydir Valley, but will it save downstream communities?
ABC Rural
Tue 9 February, 2021
Irrigators in northern New South Wales will feel some pain as the State Government moves to cut the amount of flood plain water they harvest, the Water Minister has warned.
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Global fossil fuel air pollution linked to one in five deaths
The Age
Tue 9 February, 2021
More than 8 million people are estimated to have died from fossil fuel pollution in 2018 – almost double previous estimates – with new research linking it to about one in five deaths worldwide.
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WAToday
Australia’s gold industry stamped out mercury pollution — now it’s coal’s turn
The Conversation
Tue 9 February, 2021
Mercury is a nasty toxin that harms humans and ecosystems. Most human exposure comes from eating contaminated fish and other seafood. But how does mercury enter the Australian environment in the first place?
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PFAS detected in groundwater near Callide Power Station in central Queensland
ABC News
Tue 9 February, 2021
CS Energy has detected toxic chemicals known as PFAS "above guideline levels" near its Callide Power Station in central Queensland.
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Australia’s first solar panel recycling facility to be established in Adelaide
Reneweconomy
Tue 9 February, 2021
Australia’s first dedicated solar panel recycling company has locked in plans to develop its first processing facility in the industrial Adelaide suburb of Lonsdale, in South Australia, with plans to recycle tens of thousands of PV panels a year.
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First sod turned on Albury-Wodonga recycling plant
Inside Waste
Tue 9 February, 2021
Construction is now underway on a world-class recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga that will see the equivalent of around 1 billion PET plastic bottles recycled each year.
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Farmer fury as manure is deemed industrial waste
The Weekly Times
Tue 9 February, 2021
Animal manure is about to be reclassified in Victoria from a valuable by-product to industrial waste. This is what it means for your farm.