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Replacing Liddell with Renewables Cheaper and Less Polluting than Gas
Greenpeace launches the report: Scenarios for the Replacement of the Liddell Power Station Report The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by batteries, according to a new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex. ||| New modelling undertaken…
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Replacing Liddell with renewables cheaper and less polluting than fossil gas: RepuTex
SYDNEY, Nov 27 2020 – The cheapest and lowest emissions option to replace the Liddell coal-burning power station in the New South Wales Hunter Valley is clean energy backed up by storage, according to a new report by energy analytics firm RepuTex.The report, commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, shows that replacing the ageing and unreliable…
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Big Weather (and how to survive it)
The devastation that extreme weather brings, and who should foot the bill? The summer is approaching and it has been nearly 12 months since last season’s devastating bushfires. ABC’s new three-part series explores what communities have faced and how they’re preparing for the next season. How can we all adapt, survive and thrive with less…
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Australia remains among the world’s worst for sulfur dioxide air pollution and burning coal is to blame
SYDNEY, Oct 8 2020 – Australia has made no progress in combating sulfur dioxide air pollution from the country’s coal-burning power stations with Australia keeping its place as the 12th worst offender globally in 2019, the same position it held 12 months earlier.The largest SO2 emission hotspots are a complex of mining operations with lead…
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ALDI’s latest special: 100% renewable energy
SYDNEY, 26 August 2020 – 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.In a move welcomed by Greenpeace, ALDI has been rolling out widespread energy efficiency measures, installing solar panels across hundreds…
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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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‘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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‘No gas, no cash’. Taylor threatens states in the middle of Covid-19 crisis
SYDNEY, March 27, 2020 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific condemns Energy Minister Angus Taylor’s threat to hold states under siege from the Covid-19 crisis to ransom over climate-wrecking fossil fuels.In a media release published today, Mr Taylor said “no gas, no cash” unless state governments fast-track approval of fossil gas projects despite Australia being the world’s…
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Why we HAVE to make the stimulus sustainable
A conversation starter This Covid-19 stimulus must be delivered in such a way as to keep as many people as possible healthy, safe, and certain of their future – that means safeguarding our planet as well. |Wizard Power is the company commercialising the “Big Dish” solar thermal technology that has been developed at the Australian…
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Global study shows climate change a huge factor in Black Summer bushfires
SYDNEY, March 5 2020 – Climate change is driving longer, hotter, more severe bushfire seasons in Australia, groundbreaking international research from World Weather Attribution published today shows.The report, an attribution analysis to assess the role of climate change in the 2019-20 bushfires in Australia, has also found the risk of dangerous fire conditions has been…