Daily Links Nov 25

There’re two issues that are fundamental to all for there to be a future, climate change and integrity in our political system. All else is mere clutter for where we are now in our state. These two should drive our vote, and in politics, we don’t get black and white, we only ever get ‘on balance’.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/liberals-in-marginals-targeted-by-labor-teals-in-campaign-s-last-days-20221123-p5c0na.html

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How can we talk of avoiding global warming when it’s already here? Keeping under +1.5 degrees won’t happen, we’re now at +1.47 and on track with energy generation from fossil fuels to greatly overshoot. Get used to adaptation folks – and sorry, you’ll never get to see a thriving Great Barrier Reef.

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Post of the Day

Embrace what may be the most important green technology ever. It could save us all

George Monbiot

Never mind the yuck factor: precision fermentation could produce new staple foods, and end our reliance on farming

 

On This Day

November 25

Black Friday shopping day

 

Ecological Observance

Buy Nothing Day

 

Climate Change

An Act of God? The European countries where homeowners should be most worried about climate change

From floods to fire, climate change can wreak havoc on our homes. This insurance company has mapped out where’s most at risk.

 

For many, the global warming confab that rose in the Egyptian desert was a mirage

Amid fighting over croissants and climate, the UN’s Cop27 mirrored a world that can’t come together to break free of fossil fuels and avoid a catastrophic future.

 

Stripping carbon from the atmosphere might be needed to avoid dangerous warming – but it remains a deeply uncertain prospect

Jonathan Symons and Matt McDonald

Australia’s latest State of the Climate Report offers grim reading. As if recent floods weren’t bad enough, the report warns of worsening fire seasons, more drought years and, when rain comes, more intense downpours. It begs the question: is it too late to avoid dangerous warming?


Coal-driven climate change is becoming a big problem – for coal

Andrew Gorringe & Simon Nicholas

Climate change – driven largely by the burning of coal – is driving extreme weather events that are taking an increasing toll on unit costs for coal miners.

 

National

How Albanese walked a tightrope of Labor division amid fears 43% emissions target would cost it the election

A fierce internal debate raged as Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen pushed for an ambitious climate policy for the 2022 election

 

Tobacco companies can’t sponsor Australian arts. Should fossil fuel giants be banned too?

A 350.org database shows almost two dozen arts organisations are still reliant on mining money

 

Department acts to stop release of documents on probe into land-clearing by company linked to Angus Taylor

Legal action taken to block information on investigation into illegal land-clearing by Jam Land Pty Ltd after commissioner ordered its release


Fact check: The shoe fits on Plibersek’s material footprint claim

The federal environment minister says Australia has to do more to reduce the amount of resources the nation uses.

 

Labor minister’s Green dare as coal, gas timeline revealed [$]

The Resources Minister has detailed just how long Australia will continue to export coal and gas as she dared Greens MPs to visit mining communities.

 

Push to power up on energy action [$]

Australians want faster action on rising electricity prices and the transition to renewables, with more than 70 per cent of voters backing government intervention.


Investment in storage projects jumps, but wind and solar “throttled by uncertainty”

CEC says renewable investment has been throttled by uncertainty, and at lowest levels for five years just as the nation needs to accelerate.

 

Fair Cop27? Where did Peter Dutton’s figure of $2tn for climate damage fund come from?

Graham Readfearn

Meanwhile, BP’s CEO was in town spruiking the energy giant’s climate credentials, as its oil output increases from last year

 

How much will Australia pay for China’s ‘climate change losses’? [$]

Matt Canavan

China is counted as a developing nation under a plan to fund climate change losses. So just how much will Australia pay?

 

It’s natural to want to feed wildlife after disasters. But it may not help

Samantha Finnerty and Catherine Herbert

Over the past three years, Australians have been bombarded by natural disasters as record-breaking fires and monster floods hit communities hard.

 

Australia’s debt to the world greater given our ‘real’ carbon emissions

Jeremy Moss

New data revealing Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are much higher than reported means pressure is on the Federal Government to go beyond current commitments toward global climate action.

 

Another twist in Australia’s erratic march to renewable energy [$]

Jennifer Hewett

Is a taxpayer subsidy to keep AGL’s Torrens Island B gas power station running really the transition Mike Cannon-Brookes had in mind?

 

Modern nuclear technology offers ideology-free plan B [$]

Claire Lehmann

The problem of man-made climate change is real and scaling up clean energy is essential but, as Germany has found, renewables are just not up to the job.

 

Labor going all-in to mine investment [$]

Ticky Fullerton

The federal government is publicly putting strong support behind the mining sector to position Australia as a clean-energy superpower.

 

Victoria

Labor and teals target Liberals in marginal seats in campaign’s final days

Teal independents running in three marginal seats have released polling commissioned by Climate 200 pointing to major concern among voters in the electorates about the logging of native forests.

 

Libs to privatise sewage plants, drain the Future Fund

Both Labor and the Coalition would raid Victoria’s rainy-day fund to scrape together a budget surplus in the next term of government.

 

Voters in Suburban Rail Loop path turn on project [$]

Exclusive polling data has revealed voters who are set to benefit most from the project say they don’t believe it’s worth the $125bn cash splash.

 

Labor costings don’t include ‘a single cent’ for $125b rail loop [$]

Both Labor and Liberal have had difficulty explaining their election costings document amid billions being spent by both sides.


It’s election time in Victoria: Who’s promising what on energy and transition to renewables?

From offshore wind-powered public energy utilities, to cheap solar and batteries for everyone, all the way to stockpiling gas, we break down Victoria’s energy policy mix.

 

The great big lie of Daniel Andrews’ campaign [$]

Terry McCrann

Daniel Andrews has no real intention of bringing back the SEC as we knew it but what he’s promising will plunge us into huge debt.

 

New South Wales

Damning review of NSW biodiversity scheme

A review of the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme has found it effectively allows developers to pay to destroy threatened species, along with a raft of other issues.

 

From drought to flood in three years, the NSW landscape is almost unrecognisable

The flooded landscape across the Central West paints a very different picture to that of three years ago when Australia was suffering a record-breaking drought.

 

Secret men’s business: Indigenous women fume at sacred site ban [$]

A controversial ban declaring Mt Warning walking track and climbing the mountain off limits to the public because of claims it is for Indigenous men only is being disputed.

 

‘Own goal’: Plan to clear bushland for new homes divides government MPs

Two senior government ministers are privately furious about plans to build hundreds of new homes in Sydney bushland, setting up a fresh political battleground for independents seeking to win the Liberals’ heartland northern beaches seats in the March state election.

 

Perrottet’s Big Lie: NSW’s ‘strong’ record on environment

Sue Arnold

Dominic Perrottet’s claim to “have the strongest record on environment anywhere in the country” doesn’t stack up against his dismal failure to protect koala habitat in NSW.

 

‘Strike Force Guard’: suppression of climate protest threatens us all

Josh Pallas and  Zelda Grimshaw

“The totalising control that [NSW police] have on my life is crushing and it is clearly designed to be so,” writes an activist in this collection of first-hand accounts of the suppression of climate protest by NSW police ‘Strike Force Guard’.

 

ACT

Libs’ light rail shift a ‘southside betrayal’

The Canberra Liberals’ moves to drop support for building light rail to Woden amounts to a betrayal of the southside, Transport Minister Chris Steel has said.

 

ACT govt promises to do more to look after Lake Tuggeranong [$]

The ACT government has agreed to do more to protect the health of Lake Tuggeranong including exploring improvements to its mowing program to prevent lawn clippings entering drains, following a motion put forward by Greens MLA Johnathan Davis.

 

Consider which trees are most suitable for the suburbs, ACT government told

The ACT government needs to consider which tree species are appropriate for planting in urban areas to limit the risk of damage from severe weather events, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

 

Queensland

Ark Energy scales back huge Queensland wind farm to avoid ecological sites

Ark Energy cuts area of Chalumbin wind farm in half, to avoid sensitive ecological and cultural heritage sites. But it will feature 7MW turbines.

 

South Australia

‘It is a lot of water’: River Murray daily flows could match city’s yearly water usage

Those in Greater Adelaide consume about 200 gigalitres of water a year, but now the state faces the prospect of that much water coming across the border into the River Murray every day, Premier Peter Malinauskas says.

 

Second, higher River Murray flood peak to hit towns at Christmas

Another four kilometres of a protective sandbag system has landed in Adelaide from overseas to protect River Murray communities, as a new flood forecast shows a second December surge revised upwards to an estimated 185GL per day around Christmas.


Tasmania

ROCC rules out costs application on failed cable car bid

As the window of opportunity to apply for costs incurred in the TASCAT cable car appeal closes, Residents Opposed to the Cable Car (ROCC) has resolved to not apply for costs and calls on the cable car proponent to abandon what was again confirmed to be an unviable, unpopular and non-compliant development for kunanyi.

 

Tasmanian doctors urge Plibersek to protect takayna/Tarkine rainforest 

A number of Tasmanian doctors are calling for Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek to protect Tasmania’s globally significant takayna/Tarkine rainforest in the state’s north-west.

 

Labor zaps energy saver scheme [$]

Opposition Energy spokesman Dean Winter on Thursday accused the government of bungling the Energy Saver Loan Scheme by appointing as the scheme’s financial partner Brighte Capital, a NSW company he said had “serious question marks” for selling overpriced equipment to vulnerable people.

 

On Salmon Industry Plan …

Media release – Jo Palmer, Minister for Primary Industries and Water

Tasmania’s salmon industry continues to be one of the state’s success stories and the Tasmanian Liberal Government is a proud supporter of it.

 

Northern Territory

Health system ‘racist to Indigenous Australians’

Going to an emergency department as an Aboriginal person is a profoundly more racist experience than for non-Indigenous Australians – and it could even prove fatal.

 

Eighteen academics write to NT government about ‘particularly poor and regressive’ water planning regime

A group of 18 water experts from universities across the country has written to the Northern Territory Chief Minister to express concern about the region’s “poor” water regulations and to urge a halt in new extraction licences.

 

Unless there is action, Torres Strait Islanders will be climate change refugees

Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai

Last week, we traveled thousands of kilometres from our island homes of Boigu and Saibai in the Guda Maluyligal Nation in the Torres Strait to COP27 in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt with a message from our communities to world leaders.

 

Western Australia

WA laws criticised as Indigenous custodians ‘excited’ for federal protection of cultural sites

Indigenous groups say proposed federal legislation to protect cultural heritage sites is a positive step as WA’s state laws are inadequate to prevent another Juukan Gorge disaster.

 

Juukan Gorge traditional owners say they were sidelined

The traditional owners of the destroyed Juukan Gorge rock shelters say they were disrespected and sidelined in the federal government’s formal response.

 

Regulator stopped dangerous Santos drilling off WA coast

Santos has had three serious safety incidents in WA waters in 18 months and the latest, in a worst-case scenario, could have resulted in oil reaching beaches near Ningaloo.

Design debacle delays major Perth road project

Just days after the discovery of a $1 million design fault in the newly-widened Mitchell Freeway, WAtoday can reveal a second project in Perth’s north has been hit by delays and cost blow-outs.

 

Activists pushing to save Murujuga from Woodside’s Scarborough Gas need support

Petrina Harley, one of three members of Scarborough Gas Action Alliance arrested last November for stopping Woodside’s operations on Murujuga, is facing court

 

Sustainability

Climate-friendlier meat just got a step closer to your plate

 

Upside Foods, one of more than 100 startups working on cultivated or lab-grown meat, is the first to earn a key approval from the U.S. FDA.

 

How converting farm food waste to veggie snacks could help reduce global emissions

The global food waste conundrum continues to grow, but smart tech developed in Australia could cut the problem significantly, by converting excess vegetables into nutritious new products.

 

Eating the Earth: Decarbonizing our food systems

Michael Grunwald

Our Eating the Earth column explores the connections between the food we eat and the climate we live in.

 

Ignore false claims and bad journalism – most LTNs do reduce traffic

Andrew Gilligan

Objections to active travel infrastructures are now picking and choosing data to fit the narrative

 

Nature Conservation

No place for flowers: El Salvador’s biggest lake swamped by trash

A horse wades through a sea of plastic bottles, tin cans and green sludge that fills El Salvador’s largest freshwater lake, stark images showing how a key drinking water source goes neglected even as global environmental concerns are on the rise.

 

Mumbai’s Aarey forest: The woman fighting to protect it from metro project

Pramila is protesting against a train depot being built in the forest where her community lives alongside leopards.

 

 

 

 

 

 



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