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The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) completed more than 640 hectares of hazard reduction burning over the past seven days across the Hunter. ....
Latest data for Australia's total electricity generation show renewables continued to increase as a share of generation in 2020, while dispatchable. ....
The Greens have rebuked the Morrison government's plan to spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on a gas plant announced the very same day that. ....
Date Time Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants The Morrison government today announced it’s building a new gas power plant in the Hunter Valley, committing up to A$600 million for the government-owned corporation Snowy Hydro to construct the project. Author Visiting Researcher, Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne Critics argue the plant is inconsistent with the latest climate science. And a new report by the International Energy Agency has warned no new fossil fuel projects should be funded if we’re to avoid catastrophic climate change. The move is also inconsistent with research showing government-owned companies can help drive clean energy innovation. Such companies are often branded as uncompetitive, stuck in the past and unable to innovate. But in fact, they’re sometimes better suited than private firms to take investment risks and test speculative technologies. ....