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‘The only obstacle to clean energy is a lack of political will’
SYDNEY, Sept 9 2020 – With the economic case for replacing coal with renewables won convincingly, the only barrier to Australia seizing the opportunities the energy transition offers is our political leaders, Mark Butler says.This morning, the Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy told the Smart Energy Council’s Virtual Expo that the only thing…
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ALDI’s latest special: 100% renewable energy
ALDI supermarket, of the famed ‘Special Buys’, has today announced an extra special buy - the commitment to purchase 100% of its electricity from renewable energy by the end of 2021
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Air pollution from burning coal kills 800 people in Australia each year and makes thousands more ill
SYDNEY, Aug 25 2020 – Air pollution from Australia’s ageing and increasingly unreliable coal-burning power stations is responsible for 800 premature deaths, 14,000 asthma symptoms among children and 850 cases of low birth weight in newborns each year, according to a ground-breaking report by Greenpeace.The report Lethal Power: How burning coal is killing people in…
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Gasman Nev Power confirms Covid Commission pushed for taxpayers to waste money expanding fossil gas industry
SYDNEY, Aug 11 2020 – Strike Energy director and Chair of the Government’s National Covid-19 Commission (NCC) has told a Senate hearing that the body lobbied the Prime Minister to use public money to expand the fossil gas industry.The revelations come as a Freedom of Information request for the Commission’s Advanced Manufacturing Taskforce report was…
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‘A recipe for corruption’ Researcher warns of the risk gas-stacked Covid-19 Commission poses to Australia’s democracy
SYDNEY, Aug 5 2020 – A Melbourne University researcher has sounded the alarm on the Prime Minister’s National Covid-19 Commission (NCC), warning that handing power to a cabal of unelected business leaders could pose risks to Australian democracy that will endure well beyond the pandemic.The allegations are contained in the Private Actors & Crisis; Scrutinising…
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Greenpeace Response to AEMO’s Integrated System Report
SYDNEY, Thursday, July 30 2020 – In response to the Australian Energy Market Operator’s Integrated System report, Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigner Elizabeth Sullivan said:“This report clearly shows that there is no need for new gas power stations and that the National Covid-19 Commission’s agenda to push for more gas is nothing but rent-seeking by vested…
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Rebranded covid commission retains bizarre push for taxpayers to foot the bill for expansion of dirty fossil gas industry
SYDNEY, July 29 2020 – Despite a public relations exercise, the controversial National Covid-19 Commission (NCC) is still pushing its fossil fuel agenda, calling for a massive expansion of the gas industry with taxpayers slugged with the bill despite the fact the industry is already critically oversupplied.A leaked presentation of the NCC’s report into manufacturing…
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Rebranded Covid commission still reeks of gas and conflicts of interest
SYDNEY, July 27 2020 – The Federal Government’s attempted rebrand of the gas-stacked National Covid-19 Commission exacerbates the body’s lack of transparency and accountability and represents a missed opportunity for Australia to emerge strongly from the pandemic.This morning Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Energy Australia CEO Catherine Tanna would be leaving the commission to…
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‘Narrabri gas project could see truckloads of toxic brine produced every day, with waste dumped into creek’
SYDNEY, July 24 2020 – Santos’s controversial Narrabri gas plans will produce a large aircraft hangar worth of toxic brine containing radionuclides over the life of the project, with some of the waste slated to be dumped in Bohena creek, which feeds into the Murray Darling Basin.This morning Greenpeace Australia Pacific Campaigner, Jonathan Moylan told…
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Narrabri gas recommendation misrepresents academic review
SYDNEY, July 22 2020 – The academic upon whose research the New South Wales Government recommended the Narrabri Gas Project proceed, has stated that her social impact advice has been misconstrued by the Department of Planning Industry and Environment. A submission to the Independent Planning Commission by the Sydney Environment Institute shows that University of Queensland…
