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Revised development plans for a 630MW wind farm on S.A. Yorke Peninsula, linked to Adelaide via an undersea cable, have won state government approval.

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Aurecon has been appointed by Spark Infrastructure as the owner’s engineer for the Bomen 120 MWdc bi-facial solar photovoltaic (PV) project currently under construction near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.

The post Aurecon advises Spark Infrastructure on the build of its first renewable energy generation project in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A record July for wind energy generation has also the combined output of "new renewables" – that is wind and solar – to reach a new peak for the month.

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South Australia hailed as an example to the world of how grids can move beyond "baseload" and transition to low emissions grid dominated by renewables.

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The 2019-20 round of the Australian Heritage Grants program is now open. Through the Program, the Government will invest $5.3 million per year to strengthen the recognition, management, conservation and public engagement on Australia’s National...

The 2019-20 round of the Australian Heritage Grants program is now open. Through the Program, the Government will invest $5.3 million per year to strengthen the recognition, management, conservation and public engagement on Australia’s National...

Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator (Emergent) is a new not-for-profit 501(c)(4) working to accelerate financial flows to support and promote tropical forest protection, restoration, climate change mitigation, and sustainable development. The Analyst/Associate will be responsible for managing the team’s administrative requirements, producing drafts of critical materials (grant writing and reporting, marketing materials, investor presentations, financial models), and supporting the organization’s partnerships with public, private, and philanthropic stakeholders. 

The Environmental Commodity Trader negotiates sales and purchases of environmental commodities such as renewable energy credits (RECs), greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances, and clean fuel program (CFP) credits, and manages positions for the company’s GHG allowance, REC and low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) credit portfolios.

The design of California’s mine methane capture (MMC) offset protocol may incentivise non-additional emission reductions and allow coal operations to run longer by improving profitability, researchers said in a new study.

Acidic oceans are disrupting a major part of the carbon cycle, slowing how seas absorb carbon from the atmosphere. This could massively speed up the effects of climate change.v Katherina Petrou, Senior Lecturer in Phytoplankton Ecophysiology, University of Technology Sydney Daniel Nielsen, Casual Academic, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EUAs climbed back towards €26 on Monday to leap back from last Friday’s nine-week low, albeit on thin trade affected by a UK public holiday.

Sydney Catholic Schools spokesman says ‘the best way for young people to really make a difference is to receive a quality education’

Sydney Catholic and Anglican churches say they will not follow the example of the Uniting church, which has granted support to the school climate strike movement and given students support to attend the marches.

Students across the country are planning to walk out of school on Friday 20 September, to protest government inaction on the climate crisis. Thousands of Australian students participated in two previous strikes, which have since grown into a global movement of millions.

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Two species to be classed as most at risk after ownership craze fuelled by social media

A trade ban is looming for two endangered otter species after 100 countries voted to increase protections following a social media-fuelled craze for acquiring the mammals as pets.

A majority of parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) voted to place the smooth-coated otter on the treaty’s most endangered list on Sunday. On Monday, they voted to do the same for the Asian small-clawed otter.

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The mass of pumice, the size of Manhattan, is believed to come from an underwater volcano near Tonga.

Scheme to pipe ‘waste heat’ from tube into hundreds of Islington homes and businesses

The sweltering temperatures on the tube’s Northern line will soon begin keeping homes in Islington, north London, cosy through the colder months, under a scheme to harness the heat from the underground.

By the end of the year the project will pipe heat from the underground into hundreds of homes and businesses that are part of a heating scheme in the borough.

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Two sailors recall their encounter with a vast sea of floating volcanic rocks in the Pacific Ocean.

That annoying buzz we all recognise from summer evenings is actually a love song for a mosquito.

John Laing writes down $120 million from value of renewable energy projects due to transmission constraints, and puts a halt to new investments in Australia as a result.

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Houses shake as 2.9-magnitude quake recorded near Cuadrilla’s site near Blackpool on Monday

A large tremor that caused houses to shake has been triggered by the UK’s only active fracking site, amid rising alarm about the controversial practice.

The 2.9-magnitude quake, recorded near Cuadrilla’s site near Blackpool on Monday morning, is believed to be the biggest fracking-related tremor seen in Britain.

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Climate crisis group says Scottish government urgently needs to speed up response

A coalition of climate campaigners and business groups have called for a ban on all petrol and diesel vehicles in Scottish cities as part of a multibillion-pound strategy to cut carbon emissions.

The climate emergency response group, a coalition of 19 environment groups, civic institutions, companies and business groups, said the Scottish government had to significantly speed up and strengthen its responses to the threats posed by global heating.

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