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'New era of co-operation' to reboot Australia's energy
Energy market stakeholders have backed a plan by Labor, Greens and Liberal energy ministers to ramp up renewables, battery storage and hydrogen power to prevent another power crisis.
Energy market stakeholders have backed a plan by Labor, Greens and Liberal energy ministers to ramp up renewables, battery storage and hydrogen power to prevent another power crisis.
Two significant events in the past week demonstrate the rapid investment shift away from coal-fired electricity generation, writes Bruce Mountain.
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Courts and shareholders are piling pressure on fossil fuel companies to cut emissions and there’s no turning back the climate activism, argue Jacqueline Peel, Ben Neville and Rebekkah Markey-Towler.
South Australian Labor Left powerbroker Mark Butler has been moved from the contentious climate change portfolio but picked up the health shadow ministry, as Labor leader Anthony Albanese confirmed an overhaul of his frontbench line-up ahead of the next election.
China says some Australian coal imports have failed to meet environmental standards, amid reports that 53 bulk carriers holding more than five million tonnes of Australian coal worth $500 million have been stranded off Chinese ports for a month, anchored and unable to unload.
South Australian company Leigh Creek Energy has been granted a petroleum production licence to commence commercial syngas production at the former coal mine site in the state’s far north.