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Victorian Coalition energy policies to drive highest power prices and pollution levels of major parties: RepuTex analysis
Labor forecast to deliver lowest power prices, Greens to deliver lowest carbon emissionsSYDNEY, Nov 16 – A re-elected Labor government would deliver the steepest reduction in Victorian wholesale electricity prices, while the Greens would oversee the sharpest reduction in carbon pollution, according to a new report by energy market analyst RepuTex. The report, commissioned by…
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EXPOSED: Leaked oil company documents reveal staggering extent of spill modelling
Equinor has vowed it won’t go ahead with drilling in the Great Australian Bight unless it can be done safely — but its own documents show that safe drilling in the Bight is a myth. The waters of the Bight are wild and stormy, and the proposed drill site is twice as far underwater as…
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Victoria votes: buskers, baristas and clean energy
Buskers and baristas. Grand final fever and the Great Ocean Road. Idiosyncratic facial hair and indecisive weather. Victoria has it all! But with the state set to go to the polls next week, and the future of clean energy and climate action at stake, what do the voters of Victoria really want? What happens when you throw a…
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Leaked documents show Bondi Beach could be coated by Great Australian Bight oil spill
November 14, 2018: Secret documents created by Norwegian oil driller Equinor and leaked to Greenpeace Australia Pacific paint a horrifying new picture of a potential Great Australian Bight oil spill that could reach as far north as Port Macquarie and coat Sydney beaches such as Bondi, Manly, and Cronulla with oil.“This leak should be the…
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Liberals’ energy plan for Victoria: a backwards step
Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s proposal to prop up dying industries that business won’t is a symptom of the fossil fuel fetishisation and climate change denial that plagues the Coalition at state and federal level. This morning the Coalition announced it will tender for 500MW of electricity generation to power infrastructure if elected, such as…
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Liberals’ plan to bet taxpayer money on gas or coal ignores climate science and market realities
SYDNEY, Nov 12, 2019 – Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy’s proposal to prop up dying industries that business won’t is a symptom of the fossil fuel fetishisation and climate change denial that plagues the Coalition at state and federal level. This morning Mr Guy announced that if the Coalition is successful at next week’s election…
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Victorian government can do better than miserly increase in renewables
November 8, 2018: Greenpeace Australia Pacific (Greenpeace) today welcomed the Victorian Government’s announcement that it will move to set a 2030 Victorian Renewable Energy Target (VRET) of 50%, and the government’s announcement they will invest $82m over 10 years to provide an additional 50,000 rebates on solar panels for Victorian renters.However, it has also called…
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BP’s 2016 oil well plan proves safe Bight drilling is a myth
A more than two year legal battle by Greenpeace Australia Pacific has revealed details of how dangerous and risky drilling by any oil company would be in the Great Australian Bight and how difficult it would be to respond in the event of an accident. Greenpeace has obtained BP’s 2016 Well Operations Management Plan which…
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Twice as bad as Deepwater Horizon: BP’s 2016 well plan proves safe Bight drilling is a myth
November 5, 2018: A more than two year legal battle by Greenpeace Australia Pacific has revealed oil company documents demonstrating that a Great Australian Bight oil spill could be double the size of the Deepwater Horizon disaster and that safety equipment would be unusable more than a third of the year. BP modelling shows a…
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Renewables emerge as key battleground in upcoming Victorian election
In just over a month Victoria goes to the polls. What’s at stake, I hear you ask. Nothing more than the future of the renewable energy revolution. |In Waubra, central Victoria, one of Australia’s largest wind turbine farms is currently under construction.| As it stands Victoria is among the states leading the way in the…
