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AGL’s Unreliable Coal A Dirty Rat Eating Away At Household Wallets
News that AGL’s Loy Yang A coal-burning power station will be offline until September, on top of additional outages at its Bayswater and Liddell stations, shows the need for AGL to rapidly embrace renewable energy in order to reduce its climate pollution and help bring down prices for Australian households, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. AGL…
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The Gas Industry’s Greed Has Fuelled The Energy Crisis
The greed of the Australian gas industry and its desire to turn vast profits on the export market has manufactured an artificial “energy crisis” that is hurting Australians, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific.Today Energy Minister Chris Bowen will meet with state and territory counterparts to discuss solutions to the energy price spike, as coal and gas…
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Ding, Dong, AGL’s Demerger Is Dead – Now Ditch The Dud Leadership
Energy giant AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, has ditched its planned demerger, which Greenpeace Australia Pacific has labelled “one of the most bungled and misguided attempts at a corporate restructure in Australian history. Glenn Walker, senior campaigner at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, said that the failure of AGL’s demerger is representative of the failure of vision…
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Labor Government’s 2030 Renewables Target Renders AGL’s Demerger A Dead Duck
Labor’s victory and the overwhelming vote for climate-focused candidates marks the death knell for AGL’s proposed demerger, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. The incoming government's Powering Australia policy [1] is to ensure renewables will make up 82 per cent of the National Electricity Market (NEM) by 2030, which closely aligns with AEMO’s industry-backed step change scenario…
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Climate Dinosaurs Declared Extinct At Federal Election
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has declared the Morrison Government’s decisive loss in the polls is “the only time you’ll ever see us celebrating an extinction event”, adding that Australians have voted for the climate in giving the Coalition the boot. Australian voters have named climate change as a top concern in pre-election polling and this has…
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Optus Says YES To 100% Renewable Energy
Telco giant Optus has today become the final major Australian telco to commit to switch to 100% renewable electricity by 2025, putting the telecommunications industry back out in front of the corporate energy transition according to a new industry briefing by Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Optus is the 38th largest electricity user in Australia, using 539GWh…
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“Arrogant” Woodside Gaslights The United Nations, IEA And CSIRO At Chaotic AGM
Gas company Woodside has displayed “breathtaking arrogance” at its Annual General Meeting today, disregarding the expertise of the United Nations, the International Energy Agency, investor groups and the climate concerns of the community, says Greenpeace Australia Pacific. Woodside was assailed with a barrage of questions from shareholders, environmental groups and concerned community members at its…
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Labor’s $194M For The Reef Welcome Sea-Change, But Greater Ambition To Reduce Emissions Crucial
Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s commitment of $194 million to tackle climate impacts on the Great Barrier Reef has been welcomed by Greenpeace Australia Pacific as important recognition of the damage climate change is wreaking on our fragile marine environment, but must be accompanied by an urgent commitment to emissions reduction. Labor has announced an additional…
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‘The Memory Of A Goldfish And The Agility Of An Elephant’, AGL’s Claims Out Of Step With Market
Claims made today by AGL, Australia’s biggest climate polluter, that ending coal generation by 2030 is an ‘engineering impossibility’ are a clear demonstration of the failure of the company’s leadership and inability to keep pace with the changes underway in the energy market, Greenpeace Australia Pacific says. As AGL limps towards its proposed demerger amongst…
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FOI Documents Show Woodside Tried To Breach Australia’s International Ocean Agreements With Dodgy Oil Rig Dump
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information and from a public register show that giant oil and gas corporation Woodside attempted to breach Australia’s international ocean protection commitments in its attempts to dump a toxic decommissioned oil rig off the coast of Western Australia. The documents, sighted by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, show Woodside, in partnership with…
