The federal minister for energy and climate change explains why the government’s on track to deliver cleaner energy for Australia – and why the opposition’s plans are a recipe for disaster.
An administrator’s report on the group that ran the Wilkie Creek coal mine details the possible involvement of shadow directors in the company’s operation.
Just months before it announced the deal to extend the life of Eraring,the NSW government asked the electricity grid operator to undertake more conservative modelling.
Glencore has scrapped plans to spin off its coal business,with an unlikely coalition of investors and activists all opposed to the plan.
Australia’s biggest coal exporter says more than two-thirds of its shareholders want the company to hold on to its coal mines.
The Eraring power station’s coal output has hit a five-year-high,highlighting the difficulties of weaning the grid off the polluting fossil fuel.
BHP is reducing emissions by buying renewable energy,electrifying its diesel-guzzling fleet of mining vehicles and cutting fugitive coal mine methane emissions.
The Environment Protection Authority has warned that the rest of the NSW economy would have to make steeper cuts to greenhouse gas emissions to compensate if the proposal to continue Hunter Valley Operations goes ahead in its current form.
Tigers Realm shareholders,including billionaire Paul Little,are set to approve the sale of its Russian coal mines but a sanctions complication looms.
The state is forecast to fall short of legislated targets to reduce greenhouse emissions by 50 per cent by 2030 and 70 per cent by 2035. What can be done to get back on track?
As news of the deal to prolong the life of the Eraring power station broke,state governments lined up to oppose nuclear energy.