Doubts have been raised about the long-term viability of two of the world’s most-celebrated and most-studied offshore carbon capture and storage projects, raising new concerns over massive government subsidies for the controversial method of removing carbon from the atmosphere

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Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has removed the Koala Referral Guidelines, replacing them with a weaker and far more complex system, again dependent on self-referral. Suzanne Arnold reports on the ‘Nature Repair Market Bill’ to establish a voluntary market for “biodiversity credits”.

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Regulators ASIC and ACCC have put Australian businesses on notice that those caught deceiving consumers or investors through greenwashing are facing potential prosecution. It’s the new battleground of business ethics, David Gilchrist reports.

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Glencore’s decision to transform the Wandoan mega coal mine into a feedstock for dirty hydrogen production in the Surat Basin hydrogen project means even more pollution than using the fuels directly,

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As foreign takeovers swirl, a hidden super-profit is being levied by electricity network providers costing Australians $1bn a year.

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Few substantial differences set the Coalition and Labor apart on fossil fuels and climate. Both parties support new coal and gas projects despite dire warnings from the IPCC. This is the latest in Callum Foote’s series investigating the policies of the major parties heading into Saturday’s election.

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As the Palaszczuk Government rolls out thousands of coal seam gas permits on the Darling Down farmers report damage to prime land. Alarm sounds for farmers fighting Santos in NSW

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The Government’s key emissions policy has been dealt a blow with a Senate Committee report showing the Greens are firmly withholding their support for Labor’s Safeguard Mechanism Bill

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The Senate inquiry into the government’s key emission reduction policy, the Safeguard Mechanism, revealed broad support for the policy by industry bodies, yet independent experts exposed a myriad of inadequacies. It may even lead to higher emissions. Callum Foote reports.

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The government has “significantly underestimated” coal and gas emissions in its Safeguard Mechanism to curb big carbon polluters, according to new analysis by Climate Analytics.

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Kamilaroi elders, farmers and politicians gathered under a temporary pavilion on the Gunn property east of Gunnedah this week, right in the middle of the Liverpool Plains. They want to stop the fossil fuel developments that threaten our food supply

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Tanya Plibersek has quietly approved another Santos fracking project to go ahead in Queensland’s Surat Basin.

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The CSIRO’s recent report detailing carbon credits required to offset fracking in the Beetaloo Basin is based on faulty assumptions to suit the gas industry.

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A group of globally renowned scientists have slammed the NSW government for failing to measure the impact of the 2019 Black Summer bushfires and continuing to log native forests at the same rate as before, even in designated high-risk zones

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Santos is denying it, but local farmers claim the group is poised to start fracking in the Gunnedah Basin on the Liverpool plains.

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Public subsidies for coal plants are merely the icing on the cake of a triumphant year for multinational fossil fuel corporations operating in this country. Michael West and Callum Foote report on Fossocracy Australia.

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The Albanese government’s gas caps are not enough, which means gas reservation for the East Coast of Australia is likely as both industry and electricity consumers are held to ransom by gas cartel threats to withhold supply. Analyst Bruce Robertson reports.

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In early December, the nation’s energy ministers met to drive the final nail into the coffin of the Scott Morrison’s much-maligned “CoalKeeper” scheme, agreeing to a totally new scheme to support clean energy storage.

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Deaf to the Murdoch and Nine Entertainment descants of the fossil fuel choir soaring high above the harmonies of Woodside, Shell and Santos, the Australian stock market sent Santos and Woodside share prices up, not down

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Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is sinking but financing for Indonesia’s new $33bn capital city on Borneo remains uncertain

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Albo’s wonder-stroke or Waterloo? Labor is staring down hysterical fossil threats to strike a deal with the Greens and shunt its Energy Price Relief Plan through the Senate this week. The result will be just as big a relief for gas and coal companies as consumers.

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National Cabinet is to consider capping the gas price at $12 when National Cabinet meets Friday. At that high price, the government is gifting super profits to the gas cartel at the expense of Australians

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The COP27 ambitions were modest and the outcomes even more so. The many fossil fuel lobbyists in attendance did little to buyo the mood.

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Torres Strait Islanders may soon be forced to leave if nothing is done to stop catastrophic weather events and rising sea levels.

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A simple solution to the gas crisis and rising energy bills is being ignored. In WA they earmark a portion of gas supply for domestic users. This Domestic Reservation Policy works. Prices are lower, supply guaranteed. So why is the government refusing to do the same for all Australians? Rex Patrick reports.

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Water Minister Tanya Plibersek has released the “Roadmap” document accepting Australia’s water trading markets are “a market-design car-crash” and backed the findings of the long-awaited ACCC report. Authors of Sold Down the River, Stuart Kells and Scott Hamilton, report. 

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They have dubbed it “sustainable”, about “clean energy industries” and “environmentally sustainable manufacturing”; yet Darwin’s Middle Arm Sustainable Development Precinct is all about fossil fuels. Callum Foote reports. 

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Albanese government out Barnabys-Barnaby with a big Budget gift for its fossil fuel donors to build the Middle Arm port and petrochemicals project just 3k from the Darwin suburb of Palmerston. Michael West reports. 

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Electricity consumers have paid much higher bills than necessary for ‘‘poles and wires’’, gifting $10 billion to energy network providers.

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“Extremely investor friendly” is how the latest fossil fuel buyer describes Australia. Along with the twilight of the coal era with its astronomical profits has come the rise of squalid public relations tactics.

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