Issue date : Thu 24 June, 2021
Estimated Reading Time : 04 Min 04 Seconds
Number of items : 48
Fossil fuels’ free ride: Liberal MPs escalate calls for net zero target
The Sydney Morning Herald
Thu 24 June, 2021
Liberal MPs are escalating calls for stronger action on climate change to counter Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, demanding he stands up for farmers rather than defending mining and gas companies against pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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Great Barrier Reef: Labor calls on Sussan Ley to back up claim Unesco bowed to political pressure
The Guardian
Thu 24 June, 2021
Labor has called on the government to justify its claim a UN body bowed to political pressure in recommending the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a world heritage “in danger” list, saying there had been warning signs the site had been in trouble for years.
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Australia wins global backing for reef ‘danger’ listing fight
The Australian Financial Review
Thu 24 June, 2021
Australia has won support from 11 countries across Europe, Asia and North America to push back against the United Nations’ proposal to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”, threatening its World Heritage status.
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Victorian government creates three new national parks, but not everyone's happy
ABC News
Thu 24 June, 2021
The Victorian government has created three new national parks in the state's central west in an attempt to protect and preserve some of the region's most precious parkland areas.
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Malcolm Turnbull calls for NSW Parliamentary inquiry into 'inadequate' mine remediation bonds
ABC News
Thu 24 June, 2021
Former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull is calling for a New South Wales Parliamentary investigation into "inadequate" coal mine rehabilitation bonds.
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says coal is ‘needed’ while lecturing Morrison-Joyce government on climate
News.com.au
Thu 24 June, 2021
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk faced awkward questions on climate policy on Wednesday after lecturing the federal government for jeopardising the future of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Alan Kohler: The Coalition’s climate change argument is really just about freeloading
The New Daily
Thu 24 June, 2021
At the heart of the Coalition’s problem with climate change is that they’ve told Australians that dealing with it will be cost free.
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The National Party’s allergy to net zero - by a worried Liberal
The Brisbane Times
Thu 24 June, 2021
There are few issues that can claim the scalps of our political leaders as swiftly as climate and energy. As the Nationals leadership changes hands, the fundamental policy issues that have contributed to these latest leadership ructions remain unresolved.
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The government’s idea of ‘national environment standards’ would entrench Australia’s global pariah status
The Conversation
Thu 24 June, 2021
A growing global push to halt biodiversity decline, most recently agreed at the G7 on Sunday, leaves Australia out in the cold as the federal government walks away from critical reforms needed to protect threatened species.
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APCO launches new strategy for compostable packaging
Inside Waste
Thu 24 June, 2021
The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), the Australasian Bioplastics Association (ABA) and the Australian Organics Recycling Association (AORA) unite behind common approach to compostable packaging.
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Australian business eyes carbon farming in the Pacific
The Australian Financial Review
Thu 24 June, 2021
Australian businesses are eager to help countries around the Asia-Pacific unlock the carbon farming and capture opportunities of the region’s forests, mangroves and coral reefs, a new report says.
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Santos' $4.7 billion Barossa gas field could produce more CO2 than LNG, report says
ABC News
Thu 24 June, 2021
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest has attacked Santos over its plans to develop a new gas field in the Timor Sea.
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An offset loophole could be the saviour for high emissions fossil hydrogen
Reneweconomy
Thu 24 June, 2021
Putting aside the incredible spectrum of emotions that seem to be surrounding hydrogen as a technology, a concept or a political symbol, it is very much a thing worth paying very close attention to. In terms of a substance used industrially, it is quite old, but as an energy technology – or a climate technology – it is very new.
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Epuron wind farm proposal splits Stanley residents in protest, support
ABC News
Thu 24 June, 2021
Robert Smith is more at home with farming his property on the edge of Stanley, on Tasmania's north-west corner, than protesting.
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'Super' heat tolerant kelp restores hope for underwater forests battling climate change
ABC Rural
Thu 24 June, 2021
Heat tolerant giant kelp is flourishing at trial sites along the east coast of Tasmania, indicating all is not lost for the world's largest algae.
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As industry circles, calls build to expand Ningaloo World Heritage Site
WAToday
Thu 24 June, 2021
A campaign for the Ningaloo Coast World Heritage Site boundaries to expand to include Exmouth Gulf could not have come at a more dramatic time.
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Activists angry over Perth festival Fringe World’s new deal with fossil fuel giant Woodside
The Guardian
Thu 24 June, 2021
Just weeks after climate activists celebrated the apparent split between Perth festival Fringe World and its major sponsor Woodside Petroleum, a new partnership has been announced – with the fossil fuel giant transitioning its sponsorship to the festival’s non-profit parent company, Artrage.
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Murray Darling Basin water recovery to be halted by Nationals senators
The Age
Wed 23 June, 2021
Recovery of water for the environment under the $12 billion Murray Darling Basin Plan would be halted in its tracks under a move launched by National party senators in Canberra on Wednesday morning.
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ABC NewsMurray-Darling Basin water tensions bubble over as Nationals break from Liberals
Liberal Party scuppers Nationals shake up to Murray Darling water plan
The Age
Wed 23 June, 2021
The Liberal Party has delivered its first slapdown to the Nationals since Barnaby Joyce deposed Michael McCormack as leader, rejecting a proposal to halt water recovery to restore the ecosystem to health.
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Industry “frustrated” as Ley sets deadline for national solar recycling scheme
Reneweconomy
Wed 23 June, 2021
UPDATED: Federal environment minister Sussan Ley has made good on her National Press Club threat to put the solar industry “on notice” on waste management, giving the sector less than 12 months to finalise an industry-led nationwide solar panel recycling scheme.
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United Nations-backed group seeks peace in Treasury’s proxy war
The Australian Financial Review
Wed 23 June, 2021
The United Nations’ responsible investment outfit – backed by investors managing $US100 trillion in assets – has warned that the government’s proxy adviser reforms are backed by little evidence and may flood consumers with useless information.
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'Best negotiators' eye carbon tax risk
7 News
Wed 23 June, 2021
Foreign affairs chief Frances Adamson says she has some of the world's best trade negotiators looking at the risk to Australia from Europe's cross-border carbon tax.
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Parliament receives recommendation to phase out caged hens by 2036
News.com.au
Wed 23 June, 2021
Egg prices could go up under a plan to phase out caged hens by 2036, but critics argue the measure does not come soon enough.
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Clean energy funding setback a ‘missed opportunity’
The Australian Financial Review
Wed 23 June, 2021
Energy industry leaders fear the veto on extending funding from a key government body towards carbon capture and electric car charging is a missed opportunity for the country and will slow progress towards the goal of carbon neutrality.
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Joel Fitzgibbon blames ‘ideological craziness’ after Labor blocks carbon capture investment
The Guardian
Wed 23 June, 2021
Joel Fitzgibbon has blasted an upset victory in the Senate orchestrated by the Greens and Labor preventing the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) from investing in carbon capture and storage as “ideological craziness”.
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News.com.auJoel Fitzgibbon accuses own party of ‘ideological craziness’ over shock senate win
New car charging stations to be built across Victoria
The Herald Sun
Wed 23 June, 2021
An extra 100 electric car charging stations will be built in Victoria to cater for a surge in new vehicles — here’s where the new facilities will be.
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Butterfly flaps its wings in Montmorency – and upends $530m rail plan
The Age
Wed 23 June, 2021
Hundreds of metres of new railway tracks promised by the Andrews government in Melbourne’s north-east will no longer be built to save an endangered butterfly species.
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NSW plan to use ‘napalm’ poison to control mouse plague rejected over fears for wildlife
The Guardian
Wed 23 June, 2021
The national pesticides regulator has refused a request from the New South Wales government to allow farmers to use a rodent poison described as “napalm for mice” around crops to battle the devastating mouse plague.
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NSW government pressed to provide detail on strategy to save koalas from extinction
ABC News
Wed 23 June, 2021
The government's plan to spend almost $200 million on koala conservation has been roundly criticised for lacking detail.
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NT government leaves Larrimah precinct high and dry, revoking 10,000-megalitre water licence
ABC Rural
Wed 23 June, 2021
An agricultural development project in the Northern Territory has had its 10,000-megalitre water allocation revoked in a decision ultimately made by the Territory's Health Minister because the Water Security Minister had a conflict of interest.
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Yahoo NewsNT agricultural water licence revoked
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The Canberra Times
The West Australian
Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein accuses protesters of 'dreadful' roadkill tactic in MMG dam protest
ABC News
Wed 23 June, 2021
The Tasmanian government has blasted environmentalists for leaving pademelon carcasses and cat food near cameras set up close to where a controversial new mine tailings dam is proposed in Tasmania's west.
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UNESCO urges hold on Tas wilderness plans
7 News
Wed 23 June, 2021
The United Nations has called for a pause on development in Tasmania's World Wilderness Heritage Area (TWWHA), raising concerns around the thoroughness of cultural assessments.
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Energy grid must be protected from climate change-related weather events
Independent Australia
Wed 23 June, 2021
The wild weather experienced on 9 June 2021 smashed Victoria with roads closed, flash flooding and power outages. The storm system wreaked havoc across Victoria.
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Reality check from a former energy executive: Nothing about new gas stacks up today
Reneweconomy
Wed 23 June, 2021
I’ve been responsible for developing some of Australia’s largest gas and electricity infrastructure over my 40-year career as an Origin Energy executive, from the Darling Downs Power Station in Queensland to Mortlake Power in Victoria to interstate gas pipelines.
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High Court hears climate change sceptic’s appeal in academic freedom test case
The Sydney Morning Herald
Wed 23 June, 2021
Supporters of the maverick former James Cook University physics professor Dr Peter Ridd packed three courtrooms at the High Court of Australia to see their hero’s unlawful sacking case.
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‘Double-counting’ doubts cloud Santos CCS project
The Australian Financial Review
Wed 23 June, 2021
Controversial claims that Santos is set to “double count” emissions reductions that would be made through its proposed carbon capture and storage venture in South Australia have clouded the prospects for the project which is targeted for a final go-ahead in late September.
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Renewables the priority as coal exits by 2040: AEMO
The Australian
Wed 23 June, 2021
Coal accounts for up to 70 per cent of power grid supply currently, but the role of the fossil fuel will largely disappear by 2040, says the energy market operator.
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Battery win there for the taking for Australia: report
The Australian
Wed 23 June, 2021
Australia needs to invest $23bn over the next decade to take full advantage of the battery boom and develop downstream manufacturing industries to take full value from Australia’s mineral riches.
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How our housing can make it feel like a Russian winter
Pursuit
Wed 23 June, 2021
Australia’s housing just isn’t good enough when it comes to dealing with winter temperatures – we need to take lessons from the Northern Hemisphere
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All your questions about electric vehicles, answered
Triple J Hack
Wed 23 June, 2021
Only 0.7 per cent of new cars sold in Australia are electric, compared to roughly 10 per cent in the UK and Europe. Norway is leading the world with an impressive 75 per cent of new cars sales being electric.
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A lone tree makes it easier for birds and bees to navigate farmland, like a stepping stone between habitats
The Conversation
Wed 23 June, 2021
Vast, treeless paddocks and fields can be dangerous for wildlife, who encounter them as “roadblocks” between natural areas nearby. But our new research found even one lone tree in an otherwise empty paddock can make a huge difference to an animal’s movement.
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Land and Environment Court considering $40 million Byron Bay subdivision on potential koala habitat
ABC News
Wed 23 June, 2021
A $40 million development in Byron Bay is likely to hinge on whether or not the Land and Environment Court considers the site to be core koala habitat.
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A sunken ship’s trail of destruction: turtle carcasses, dead dolphins
The Sydney Morning Herald
Wed 23 June, 2021
Colombo, Sri Lanka— Nearly 100 carcasses of turtles with throat and shell damage, as well as a dozen dead dolphins and a blue whale, have washed ashore in Sri Lanka since a container ship burnt and sank, raising fears of a severe marine disaster.
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Kids shouldn’t be forced to play away their future
The Age
Wed 23 June, 2021
There’s something cruel about the amount of waste that goes into toys. Sure, the unwrapping and unboxing experience makes for great free advertising on YouTube. But those items generate a tonne of waste and single-use plastic which contribute heavily to climate change, which will inevitably make the lives of these children much, much harder. (“Here Hudson, enjoy your LOL Surprise toy now, and an increased likelihood your house will burn down in a ‘once-in-100-year’ bushfire when you’re older,” is perhaps not the ideal gift.)
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LEGO unveils reinvented bricks after thousands of kids demand change
News.com.au
Wed 23 June, 2021
LEGO is set to launch a revolutionary take on its cult favourite brick with a design feature sure to put a smile on the dial of the environmentally conscious.
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B & TLego Announces Plans To Start Making Bricks From Old Drink Bottles
Yahoo News
Lego plans to sell bricks from recycled bottles in two years
UNSW researcher wins top international solar technology gong
Reneweconomy
Wed 23 June, 2021
Yet another member of the highly respected solar research and development team at the University of New South Wales has received international recognition, with UNSW Engineering Professor Thorsten Trupke this week winning the IEEE William Cherry Award.
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Camp Cove: How Katherine Hampton created the sustainable swimwear brand
News.com.au
Wed 23 June, 2021
Growing up in New South Wales’ coastal town of Newcastle, Katherine Hampton, 31, has always loved the water. But what she didn’t like was how hard it was to find well-fitting and flattering swimwear.
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Damp winter and spring likely to lift flood risk for country’s east
The Sydney Morning Herald
Wed 23 June, 2021
Eastern Australia, already soaked by big rain events and storms this year, could be in for more flooding as conditions in the Indian Ocean and Pacific tilt to favour increased rainfall.
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News.com.auNegative Indian Ocean Dipole could see increased rainfall over winter
The Herald Sun