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Mining explorer tries its hand at 114MW solar project next to alumina refinery
A former mining exploration company is going green and is trying its hand at building a 114MW solar farm next to a major alumina refinery.
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Mullumbimby floods drown a chapter of Australia’s battery storage history
Mullumbimby floods claim a chapter of Australia's battery storage history - and two new electric vehicles.
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Extinction crisis: native mammals are disappearing in Northern Australia, but few people are watching
The Guardian view on ghost flights: a symptom, not the disease | Editorial
Airlines fly empty planes to keep hold of slots because carriers worry about financial, rather than the Earth’s, assets
Between March 2020 and September 2021, airlines flew 15,000 near-empty or empty planes – “ghost flights” – from UK airports to keep hold of their landing and takeoff slots. This absurd and shameful behaviour in the face of a climate emergency cannot continue. Tim Johnson from the Aviation Environment Federation points out that a Boeing 737-800 – the dominant aircraft on short-haul routes – emits about 18 tonnes of carbon dioxide on a 1,500km flight. Using that measure, these ghost flights put 270,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. The industry might argue that this represents less than 1% of total UK aviation emissions in 2019, but the practice is completely wrong in a world with net zero commitments.
In normal times, airlines could keep their slots from the previous season as long as they used them 80% of the time. This was reduced to zero when Covid struck – as demand for air travel suddenly disappeared and international borders closed – but has gradually increased. Slots run on a “use it or lose it” basis. Because demand is still well below supply of flights, empty planes are being flown to keep slots. Greenpeace says that more than 100,000 ghost flights will have been seen over European skies this winter. The climate damage, says the green pressure group, is equivalent to the yearly emissions of more than 1.4m cars.
Continue reading...Cannon-Brookes to walk away from AGL after biggest coal polluter rejects higher bid
Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield to withdraw AGL bid after Australia's biggest coal generator rejects increased offer pitched late on Friday.
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Yellowstone at 150: a journey into the heart of America’s first national park – in pictures
Steven Fuller has been the ‘winterkeeper’ at Yellowstone for 49 years. In that time, he has captured the breathtaking natural phenomena and the wildlife that exist there through all the seasons
Continue reading...Light … or blight? Anger rises at plan for Britain’s biggest solar farm
£600m project is one of 900 in planning pipeline to provide green energy
A proposed new £600m solar farm in eastern England – covering an area eight times bigger than Hyde Park in central London – faces opposition over claims it would be a “blight” on the countryside.
The scheme, which would provide power for up to 100,000 homes, will cover nearly 2,800 acres near Newmarket, more than 10 times bigger than any scheme built to date in Britain. It is one of more than 900 solar farms in the planning pipeline to help provide green energy.
Continue reading...The world is unpredictable and strange. Still, there is hope in the madness | Rebecca Solnit
The world that is coming is something we can work toward but not something we can foresee
I can’t say I have confidence in the future, but I have a lot of confidence in its unpredictability, based on the fact that the past has regularly delivered surprises. It’s easy to forget in retrospect how astonishing the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Velvet Revolution were in 1989, or the arrival of the Zapatista army on the world stage in 1994 or how marriage equality seemed like a long shot just before it became a reality in countries all over the world not long ago or how Ireland and Argentina recently legalized abortion. The terrible too comes along without warning. Often a major event – this unforeseen global pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine – then itself has indirect consequences that matter. The pandemic led to a radical shift in the US labor market, including rising wages, worker walkoffs and refusals that at times have seemed tantamount to a general strike, and remarkable labor organizing against some of the most resistant low-wage employers.
Both the pandemic and the invasion have significant consequences for climate politics. First of all they should shake loose the expectation that we know what will happen, that the world of next week will be pretty much the same as last week. Second they should mean that people stop saying we can’t make dramatic changes because 2022 seems to be as much about sudden and profound worldwide change as 2020 was.
Continue reading...Lost Forest: why is BrewDog’s green scheme causing controversy?
Firm has pledged to plant huge forest in Scotland, but some of its environmental claims have raised eyebrows
It is a typically eye-catching boast by the great provocateur of British brewing. James Watt, co-founder of the beer company BrewDog, pledged to plant “the biggest ever” forest in Scotland to help regenerate ancient woodlands that once carpeted the Highlands.
BrewDog’s Lost Forest would stretch over a “staggering” 50 sq km (19 sq miles), Watt said, and involve millions of trees. One promotional film said the forest would be “capable of sequestering up to 550,000 tonnes of CO2 each year”. Good soundbites, but not entirely accurate.
Continue reading...CP Daily: Friday March 4, 2022
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Compliance entities, financials pare back California carbon holdings
US Carbon Pricing and LCFS Roundup for week ending March 4, 2022
Experts expect slow start for blue carbon offsets despite heightened interest
‘Dishonest’: Morrison government wanted IPCC to say Great Barrier Reef ‘not yet in crisis’
Australian officials attempted to water down language around health of world’s largest coral reef in latest climate change report
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The Australian government pushed to soften the wording of a major report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading climate science authority, to say the Great Barrier Reef is not yet in crisis.
It has prompted accusations that the Morrison government had been “unscientific and dishonest”, and was trying to play down the damage already being caused by global heating to avoid making deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
Continue reading...US ambassador to UN: Russia's nuclear power plant attack is 'dangerous escalation' – video
The United States ambassador to the UN called Russia's military attack on a nuclear power plant in Ukraine last night a 'dangerous new escalation'.
Linda Thomas-Greenfield was speaking at a security council meeting, specially called to discuss Russia's attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the fire that broke out during the fighting.
She said: 'By the grace of God, the world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe last night. We all waited to exhale as we watched the horrific situation unfold in real time'
Canada-based VCM investor taps former UNEP chief, Trump administration lawyer
EU plans to uphold carbon market’s MSR survive early lawmaker test
UK pork prices likely to rise due to Russia-Ukraine conflict, says minister
Victoria Prentis says Britons need to be more willing to buy premium food and suggests boycott of Russian white fish
The price of food including pork is likely to rise significantly as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a UK environment minister has warned.
Victoria Prentis, the Defra minister responsible for farming, also suggested Britons may want to stop buying Russian white fish, which makes up about a third of the volume consumed in the UK.
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