Power planning on a wing and a prayer
Australia’s energy transition is spluttering to an uncertain future.
Australia’s energy transition is spluttering to an uncertain future.
Andrew Forrest has seen the light on his overblown green hydrogen ambitions and in the process pulled the plug on a centrepiece of Labor’s renewables-only energy transition plan.
It’s been a good week for the reef. Results of the latest coral survey confirm a four-decade high in coral cover has been maintained and UNESCO says it will keep Australia’s precious World Heritage icon off its in-danger list.
With his plan to drag Australia to the nuclear energy starting line, Peter Dutton has split the political atom and has built the foundations for a big-target election campaign based on strength and vision.
Put bluntly, if countries were excised from the Paris Agreement for not meeting high expectations it would be a gathering of none.
The latest AEMO report paints a picture of a low emissions transition that is being planned belatedly and on the run.
Economists well know it is not possible for a nation to subsidise its way to prosperity. The more likely outcome is crony capitalism that sucks scarce resources to industries and endeavours that could otherwise not compete.
There is a danger that removing proper planning oversight will become the norm for governments everywhere. Don’t expect environment groups to object.
The world is learning what can happen when ideology is allowed to taint expert evidence or corrupt scientific endeavour.
A scientist used in a legal attempt to block a $6bn gas pipeline admitted being untruthful in his ‘coaching’ of witnesses in an Indigenous rights claim.
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