How a fight to save the bush became a battlefield (www.smh.com.au)
A bid to preserve rainforest trees and protect endangered animals led to a long-running campaign of intimidation....
Stick to the plan: Lights won’t go out when Eraring closes on schedule (reneweconomy.com.au)
Wood heater smoke estimated to kill up to 63 in ACT each year, prompting calls for national ban (www.abc.net.au)
Australian Ravens and Crows (youtu.be)
'Valuable contributors to society' escape conviction for blocking world's largest port (www.abc.net.au)
Key points:...
Australia’s task is clear: build more wind and solar. LNP’s task? Anything but wind and solar (reneweconomy.com.au)
2023 in review: Australia nears half-way mark to 82% renewables (reneweconomy.com.au)
It’s not just the total rainfall – why is eastern Australia experiencing such sudden, devastating downpours? (www.theguardian.com)
John Howard killed emissions trading plan in 2003 after industry lobbying – cabinet papers (reneweconomy.com.au)
Australia came close to introducing a carbon emissions trading scheme two decades ago before John Howard swept in to scuttle the plan....
Successful Reintroduction of Platypuses in Royal National Park (www.theleader.com.au)
Rescue operation to save red handfish as marine heatwave strikes off south-east Australian coast (www.abc.net.au)
Australia’s richest person says solar panels are an eyesore: Here’s why that matters (reneweconomy.com.au)
From dirty diesel to nearly 70pct solar powered, Lord Howe goes electric (reneweconomy.com.au)
An original design for renewable power generation was developed in 2010 and relied mainly on wind generation with a couple of 100 kilowatts of solar....
You can’t make a net-zero Australia on a gas cooktop | Tristan Edis (www.theguardian.com)
'Wild World' map by Anton Thomas (www.thisiscolossal.com)
Not exclusively Australia, of course, but I thought people here might appreciate this. Grabbed the extra pics of the Australia section below from the artist’s website (linked in the article). If you find better/more/complete pics, please share!...
NSW secures another $4.2 billion of wind, solar and storage to help shift from coal (reneweconomy.com.au)
Steven Miles announces ambitious emissions reduction plan in first speech as Queensland premier (www.theguardian.com)
tl;dr 75% emissions reduction by 2035, increased from 30% by 2030. Includes fugitive emissions from coal and gas mines.
AEMO’s jaw dropping prediction for coal power – all but gone from the grid in a decade (reneweconomy.com.au)
Ethical super funds with Fossil Fuel investments (www.abc.net.au)
Petro-states and fossil fuel lobby steer climate deal towards global catastrophe (reneweconomy.com.au)
It says something of the hopefulness that still binds human society that the world thought it could turn up to the home ground of the world’s biggest petrol-states and expect them to sign up to a deal that would end the gushing riches that flow from their fossil fuel pipelines....
Cut lump of camphor laurel trunk sprouting (zoom in to centre) (aussie.zone)
Spotted at my local bushcare group last week. This trunk section has been sitting on the ground for months. The main tree (background) was hacked apart, drilled and poisoned by NSW Forestry, but it’s also happily sprouting everywhere again....
Queensland puts millions on the table for solar battery rebate scheme (www.abc.net.au)
Can’t speak for others, but I’ll be taking it up. We’ve got so much solar going to waste because we’re export limited for quite a bit of the day. The stuff we do export gets sold at a whopping 5 cents, which is well and truly offset by buying back in the evenings....
In the UAE desert, a shining beacon looms large. Experts say it could help Australia go green (www.abc.net.au)
‘It’s all about entitlement. Simple’: the rampant acts of tree vandalism on Australia’s foreshores | Paul Daley (www.theguardian.com)
Son of farmer who murdered environmental officer ordered to pay $405k land-clearing fine (www.abc.net.au)
The son of a farmer who shot and killed an environment officer involved in land-clearing prosecutions has been ordered to pay $405,000 by the New South Wales Land and Environment Court in Sydney today....
