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Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage project in South Australia.

Why Japan’s power plants want to bury their emissions in the outback

The start-up of a giant project to bury carbon dioxide in the desert has given Santos greater confidence as it progresses talks with Japan’s big emitters.

  • Nick Toscano

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Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill.

Woodside hits pause on two planned US green energy projects

Australia’s top oil and gas company is slowing its foray into ambitious green energy projects amid a global pullback.

  • Nick Toscano
Donald Trump is on the cusp of a second term.

Lights, camera, Village People: Excitement on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and day one orders

Donald Trump’s second inauguration foreshadows a promised crackdown on the US-Mexico border, pardons for partisan supporters and the end of diversity policies in government.

  • Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
Star of the South, 10 kilometres off Gippsland’s south coast, is the most advanced offshore wind project in Australia.

Trump plans to ban offshore wind turbines. It could be good for Australia

A Republican congressman says he has already drafted the executive order for the president to sign within his first few months in office.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel
WA billionaire Andrew Forrest launched a defence of his iron ore company, Fortescue, and his charity, Minderoo, in the wake of the lawsuit.

Forrest hits back after Minderoo dragged into ExxonMobil defamation row

Andrew Forrest has come out swinging in defence of his charity, Minderoo, after it became embroiled in a defamation suit levelled by ExxonMobil.

  • Jesinta Burton
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The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley
Viva Energy, owner of the Geelong oil refinery, is seeking approval to begin importing liquefied natural gas into Victoria for the first time.

Is there a new energy future for Australia’s remaining oil refiners?

A sprawling oil refinery in Geelong — one of just two left in Australia — is pushing to develop greener products and import gas amid questions about its future.

  • Nick Toscano
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says she is confident the lights- and air-conditioning- will stay on over the summer.

NSW faces a long hot summer. Will we have enough power to keep the air-con on?

NSW’s Labor Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is nothing more than a “hope and a prayer”.

  • Alexandra Smith
Eastern Australia is running out of gas, leaving little choice but to import it, either from ourselves or overseas.

‘Time is running out’: Victoria, NSW turn to gas imports as energy crisis nears

Governments are rushing to kickstart Australia’s first-ever gas imports, despite the nation being a top global exporter of the fossil fuel.

  • Nick Toscano

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