The Big Sebago and his nuclear boosters are looking for an election policy fix rather than an energy fix. Here is all that you need to know to decide that nuclear is a crock and the Coalition is having us all on with their pretence that they’re on board with reducing emissions.
Post of the Day
The Coalition’s energy spokesman suggests if failing to cut emissions by 43 per cent before 2030 will fail Australia’s promise under the Paris Agreement, then Australia will be in breach regardless of who is in power.
On This Day
Ecological Observance
Climate Change
Recent assessments suggest the ocean current known as Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is slowing
David Shearman
In World War III the enemy is not an array of tanks, shells and soldiers, but a collection of beliefs damaging to the earth’s future. The enemies are the minds and actions of those with the cult of neo-liberalism and greed acting through the power of huge industries, the enemy within.
National
The Coalition insists it supports the global Paris Agreement but it wants to dump Australia’s short-term emissions reduction target. Is that allowed under the rules?
As the shift away from fossil fuels gathers pace, the Coalition has turned to an emissions-free technology with a long and contentious history — nuclear fission. These are the numbers you should keep in mind when thinking about its place in Australia’s energy transition.
The Federal Court has found that Active Super made misleading ESG claims and engaged in greenwashing, following an action brought by ASIC last year.
Faced with diminished fish stocks and what they say are outdated Australian policies, these fishermen risk everything.
More public transport travel and rail freight are expected to be needed to rein in Australia’s carbon emissions to help the world limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
Advocates want to increase our production of biomethane to shore up supply, but environment groups say it’s not needed except for industrial uses.
The drinking water of up to 1.8 million Australians has been contaminated. Experts say further testing must be an urgent priority.
Each household should be offered up to $6500 to install grid-connected solar batteries and landlords incentivised to join the renewable energy revolution, a report has found.
A leading energy expert has lashed Labor’s net-zero targets as lacking ‘clarity’ and underestimating ‘how difficult’ achieving its climate goals would be.
Business groups have urged the Coalition not to dump the legislated carbon emissions reduction target for 2030 and unleash a new wave of investor uncertainty.
Adam Morton
The Coalition’s rejection of a 43% cut in emissions by 2030 will have major ramifications for us and the world
Tony Grey
We need staff trained in industrial nuclear disciplines before embarking on such power, but the expertise at Lucas Heights is a good start.
Jennifer Hewett
Electric vehicles will only become more popular – but the power supply to charge them is not keeping up with the pace.
Ted O’Brien
The claim the Coalition is pulling out of the Paris Agreement is a lie. But we won’t be shy in holding the government to account.
Gordon Noble
You might think government debt is bad, but it actually plays a crucial role in modern finance.
Victoria
Pollster Tony Barry says the survey results show the Victorian government is electorally vulnerable on energy, and voters ‘rarely reward governments for making them poorer and colder’.
New South Wales
Developers are building half-width streets in western Sydney due to current planning laws, as local councils and the state government blame each other over the issues the narrow roads are creating for residents.
ACT
The Canberra Liberals have backed in their Woden public transport plan, days after conceding a bus lane on the Commonwealth Avenue bridge was “unlikely”, declaring they would not be lectured by a government that could not reveal the price of light rail.
Wood fire smoke is making Canberrans a “prisoner in their own home”.
Queensland
But Queensland’s opposition faces growing pressure to explain its own policies so voters can decide at October’s state election.
South Australia
In two years time this region of Australia could run out of drinking water but the solution is not in line with the wishes of one peak industry.
Northern Territory
The automobile industry says cost-of-living pressures are pushing Territorians away from zero-to-low emission vehicle options, arguing the government would need to financially incentivise buyers if ‘decarbonisation’ is to be achieved.
Western Australia
Rockingham locals call for the state government to take action over the rapidly declining population of little penguins on Penguin Island, with just 114 birds remaining.
The significant joint investment of $70.5 million by the Australian Government and Western Australian Government to establish the nation’s first ‘Clean Energy Skills National Centre of Excellence’ in Western Australia has been welcomed by the Independent Tertiary Education Council Australia (ITECA), the peak body representing independent Registered Training Organisations (RTOs), higher education, and international education providers.
This vast and ambitious plan has weaknesses – particularly around the popular tourism area of Esperance – that could hobble it from the start, say scientists.
Shark Bay dolphins at play – video
Dolphin play is an indicator of later breeding success; drone footage captures dolphin play at Shark Bay.
Drone footage has shown the extent of the devastation WA’s long, rain-free summer has inflicted on bushland in the Margaret River region.
Sustainability
Scientists have found microplastics almost everywhere, and now they’re discovering that these tiny particles are floating in the air we breathe, posing potential health risks.
Nature Conservation
From meth-addicted fish to aggressive birds, human pharmaceuticals are significantly altering animal behaviors and ecosystems.
Mark Gibbs
The fourth global coral bleaching event is underway. It won’t be the last.
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