“If you want to win in 2024,if you do not want the blood of my generation to be on your hands,end fossil fuels,” said Emma,17,in New York,part of a global day of protest.
NSW’s planning department is “actively hostile” to renewables,industry says.
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey says the state’s coal producers will be taxed more – and the cost to householders will be less than $6 a year.
The only thing that upsets climate and energy ministers more than the risk of climate change is the threat of blackouts,so get used to more coal.
Origin Energy is primed to benefit as the NSW government works with the energy group to keep Australia largest coal-power station,Eraring,open beyond its 2025 closure date.
However,Energy Minister Penny Sharpe could not say how much it would cost to extend the life of Australia’s largest coal-fired power station,or how much longer it would operate for.
We can’t justify keeping the unreliable coal power generator at Eraring on life support as it enters terminal decline.
A report says that keeping Australia’s largest coal-fired power station partially open for an extra two years would boost the reliability of the state’s energy supply.
A fossil fuel bonanza has been powering our exports,but that can’t and shouldn’t continue over the long term.
With the clock ticking on coal power plants across Australia,the federal government’s aspiration to run the grid on 82 per cent renewables by 2030 is on shaky ground. Here’s why.
Secret state government deals are being cut with coal plants as renewables smash the profitability of fossil fuels.