International metals group Korea Zinc’s Australian subsidiary Ark Energy has announced it will build 3 GW of renewable energy generation in north Queensland as part of plans to produce more than 1 million tonnes of green ammonia per annum for export by 2032.
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The climate firm Labor used to model its policies before the federal election has advised the government to abandon a proposal that could hand free carbon credits to big industrial polluters – warning it could lead to Australia missing its emissions reduction targets.
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Regional communities must be included in planning and conversations about renewable energy, a national summit has been told.
The transition to renewable energy is an “industrial revolution to a timetable” and regional Australia is on the front line of change, a national summit has been told.
Tony Wood, the Grattan Institute’s energy and climate change program director, said no section of the Australian economy would be untouched by the energy shift.
“We are going to turn our 100-year-old electricity system on its head in 30 years,” Mr Wood told the Regional Australia Institute event in Canberra.
“We’re going to take a 200-year-old gas system and basically get rid of it. We’re going to reinvent the way we make aluminium, steel, concrete, cement, explosives and fertilisers.
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More than a decade after the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, carbon is about to be declared a pollutant in Australia. The EPA’s Tony Chappel explains why and what it means.
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As our nation transitions toward a renewable energy future, it is critical that all Australians, not just the energy market, play a central role in planning and delivering the country’s future electricity system.
We must ensure that the needs, rights and opportunities for communities, industries and consumers are not being compromised to satisfy least-cost outcomes.
Many actors in the energy market recognised the (AEMO) Australian Energy Market Operator’s integrated system plan (ISP) as the blueprint for our energy future.
When meeting the national energy objectives (NEO), the ISP appears to represent an appropriate business model for the National Energy Market (NEM). However, the ISP and regulatory investment test for transmission (RIT–T) frameworks are clearly not fit for purpose as they do not consider matters beyond the NEO.
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The federal government has introduced a bill to allow a mining operator more time to rehabilitate a decommissioned uranium mine near Kakadu National Park.
Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) — a subsidiary of mining giant Rio Tinto — shut down production at its Ranger uranium mine in January last year after 40 years of operation.
It has since been working to return the mine site to its original state, but the clean-up effort has become increasingly expensive and drawn out.
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Few countries in the world can make such an outsize difference to climate change. In the shift to renewable energy, the sunburnt country could satisfy global demand for green energy more than eight times over.
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The record-breaking heatwaves seen across much of the world in recent months will become increasingly common by the end of the decade, according to research.
Experts say how hot they will be is “hugely” dependent on our ability to curb carbon emissions in the next few years.
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A new survey has found that most of the time, temperatures in Australian rental properties are dropping below levels the world health organisation considers safe.
Rental advocates say more must be done to improve living standards for tenants, who are stuck in a cycle of cold, damp and expensive housing. A new survey has found that most of the time, temperatures in Australian rental properties are dropping below levels the world health organisation considers safe. ABC NewsRadio’s Thomas Oriti spoke to Joel Dignam, the founder and executive director of the advocacy group Better Renting, which put out the survey.
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Australia’s energy ministers on Friday voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal, in a major step forward in the clean energy transition. Federal, state and territory energy ministers agreed to include emissions in what’s known as the “national energy objectives”. The objectives guide rule-making and other decisions concerning electricity, retail energy and gas. Announcing the deal on Friday, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said it was the first change to the objectives in 15 years. He added: This is important, it sends a very clear direction to our energy market operators, that they must include emissions reductions in the work that they do …
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