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Humpback whales enter crocodile river 'in Australian first'
Energy Insiders Podcast: Lynham – Our future is renewable energy
Queensland energy minister Anthony Lynham says the future of Australia is in renewable energy. All the states understand this, the only party that doesn’t is the federal government.
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South Australia wants to use EVs as mobile batteries and “solar sponge”
South Australia Liberal government to develop plan to use electric vehicles as "batteries on wheels" and use charging as a "solar sponge" during the day.
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Milestone: Australia’s main grid reaches 25 pct renewables over last year
A bright spot in a dark year: Australia's main grid reaches 25 per cent share of renewable energy over the last 12 months.
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Know Your NEM: Wind and solar take 22 pct market share in early Spring clean
Wind and solar have upped their share of the market over the past month. And there's another 7GW to be added.
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How bushfires and rain turned our waterways into 'cake mix', and what we can do about it
A shift to 90 per cent renewables in the West would create 5,000 jobs a year
New report finds transitioning Western Australia to 90% renewables by 2030 would create an average of 5,000 jobs a year – even during an economic slump.
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Multiple positions, Manager, Executive Level 2, Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources – Canberra
Analyst/Modeller, Clean Energy Regulator – Canberra
AEMC delays decision on technical standards for rooftop solar
Australian Energy Market Commission delays decision on rule change request seeking to establish a framework for a minimum technical standard for rooftop solar.
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Climate change: Warmth shatters section of Greenland ice shelf
Audi, Mercedes and Polestar lead sales in world’s most successful EV market
Polestar 2 leaps into third place in Norway's new car sales in first month of deliveries, just behind the Audi E-tron and the electric Mercedes.
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Garden Island micro-grid suffers panel problems, and now it’s unplugged
Garden Island micro-grid plagued by teething issues and panel failures, and has now been disconnected because of major work at the naval base.
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Painting wind turbines black could help protect birds – if it doesn’t disrupt their migration
We should paint more wind turbines black but mainly to find out how birds respond to them.
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Give us green post-Covid recovery, urges CBI boss
'Lost decade for nature' as UK fails on 17 of 20 UN biodiversity targets
UK government said it failed on two-thirds of targets, but RSPB analysis is bleaker – and suggests UK is moving backwards in some areas
The UK has failed to reach 17 out of 20 UN biodiversity targets agreed on 10 years ago, according to an analysis from conservation charity RSPB that says the gap between rhetoric and reality has resulted in a “lost decade for nature”.
The UK government’s self-assessment said it failed on two-thirds of targets (14 out of 20) agreed at the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in Nagoya, Japan, in 2010, but the RSPB analysis suggests the reality is worse. On six of the 20 targets the UK has actually gone backwards. The government’s assessment published last year said it was not regressing on any target.
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South Australia solar power reaches 94 pct of state demand on Sunday
Solar power contributes 94 per cent of South Australia's state demand at midday on Sunday, as state government looks to use electric vehicles as a "solar sponge".
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Covid-19 drives leaders to make unprecedented interventions but what next?
New thinking is needed because of economic turmoil since 2008 and environmental concerns
For years, those on the left in Britain have been arguing that the government should be more aggressive in its use of state aid to revitalise those parts of the country affected by industrial blight.
Now, at last, we have ministers prepared to have a bare-knuckled fight with the EU over their right to intervene on behalf of those living where the factories and the coalmines used to be, but they grew up as disciples of Margaret Thatcher, who insisted that tough state aid rules be included in the rules for the single market. Ah the irony of it!
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Blockading newspapers may cross a line for some, but is the PM a bigger criminal?
My old university friend, the American geographer William Dyer, accepted my Skype call at a research station on the pebble shores of the Antarctic Sound. Once, it would have been too remote to receive messages and yet here I was, laughing at the Sub Pop Records baseball cap that fixed him temporally and culturally. Will had wanted to be free, free to do what he wanted to do. And he had wanted to get loaded and have a good time. But Will, a better man than I, discovered a conscience. And now he was watching ice melt.
Will had been the first person to tell me about climate change, one long whiskey night in 1986, but the idea that the world was warming was absurd, just like his claim that one day we would piggyback on a worldwide military computer network to communicate face to face. And yet here we were doing just that and Will was in a shrinking southern ice field documenting exactly the kind of destruction I had doubted.
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