Departed Stanwell CEO a victim of climate and culture war politics
Richard Van Breda has been taken out just as the truth of the message about coal-fired power and renewable energy has been confirmed.
Apr 28, 2021 – 6.05pm
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The full truth of the departure of Richard Van Breda as chief executive of the Queensland government-owned Stanwell Corporation is yet to emerge. But he appears to have fallen victim one way or another to another outbreak of climate and culture war politics.
At a conference last week, Mr Van Breda raised the prospect of mothballing the Tarong North and Stanwell coal-fired power plants before the end of their technical lives, due to the influx of cheap renewables into the electricity grid that are driving down wholesale power prices.
Proposed Clive Palmer-owned mine in doubt after environmental ruling
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A proposal by a company owned by billionaire businessman Clive Palmer to build a coal mine in central Queensland is in doubt after the state government found it had âunacceptableâ environmental risks.
The Department of Environment and Science published its report on the Central Queensland project on Wednesday.
Clive Palmer pictured in November 2020.
Credit:Attila Csaszar
âThe project poses a number of unacceptable risks primarily due to its proximity to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and World Heritage Area, the Broad Sound Fish Habitat Area, Tooloombah Creek, Deep Creek, the Styx River Estuary, and nearby groundwater ecosystems,â the department said in a statement.
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Palmerâs anti-Shipton ads worth $4m
Six months of lurid yellow ads have made James Shiptonâs last few months at ASIC exceedingly unpleasant.
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Christine Holgate with that of outgoing ASIC chairman James Shipton, concluding that the first would envy the treatment of the second.
The timing invites comparisons: Shipton also had his position atop a government body blown up that week in late October, when it was revealed in parliament that heâd overcharged taxpayers for tax advice.
Clive Palmer says thereâs ânothing personalâ about his anti-Shipton ads. Â
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Still, we can think of one way Holgate got the better of it: at least she hasnât had to read dozens of lurid yellow ads making inflammatory allusions to her (supposed) misdeeds every time she picked up the paper.
A SECOND Palaszczuk Government minister has been caught holidaying in New South Wales, defying calls for Queenslanders support struggling tourism businesses in the Sunshine State. Queensland s Energy and Public Works Minister Mick de Brenni is holidaying in Angourie near Yamba, about 180km south of the border. It comes one week after Deputy Premier Steven Miles was controversially spotted holidaying in Byron Bay. Mr de Brenni, a third-term Labor MP, said the trip was organised more than one year ago. My family booked this holiday in 2019, it was non-refundable and like a lot of Queenslanders we rescheduled due to the pandemic and I ve now been able to take them, he said.