In short: The Queensland government will give out rebates of between $3,000 and $4,000 for households to install solar battery storage systems. ... read full post
19 Tasmanians have received indefinite bans from entering any of the state's public native forestry estate — an area covering 812,000 hectares.
It follows protests against native logging near Takayna/Tarkine, but most of the protesters live locally, and say the bans will impact their lives.
- In short: Asset Energy Pty Ltd says it's committed to a drilling project to extract gas off the NSW coast, despite government opposition. ... read full post
Not really news.
Engie were being paid 9 Million a year to have these things do nothing as practically unused backup and ElectraNet didn't renew the contract.
- In short: Pro-renewable rallies have been held in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland
- Among the events were rallies in support of the Hunter and Illawarra offshore wind zones in NSW
- What's next? The federal government is assessing feasibility licence applications for the Hunter offshore wind zone before making a decision on successful applicants.
Australian Greens founder and award winning environmentalist Bob Brown has slammed the organisers of an anti-renewables rally planned for outside federal parliament next week, and demanded they stop using his name and image to promote a protest he says has been “hijacked by the coal lobby.” ... read full post
Australian households are already the biggest adopters of rooftop solar panels in the world, and the technology already provides all of local demand in some states at certain times, and more than 11 per cent of total grid demand over the past year. ... read full post
A bid to preserve rainforest trees and protect endangered animals led to a long-running campaign of intimidation.
I use Bypass Paywalls Clean to get around paywalls but I know it can be a bit fussy to install so I'm going to copy+paste article in comments.
Key points:
- Ninety-nine demonstrators were listed at Newcastle Local Court today over the November Newcastle protest
- The action stopped exports of coal from the Port of Newcastle, the largest coal port in the world
- Magistrate Stephen Olischlager says protesters had acted out of genuine concern for the environment
Australia came close to introducing a carbon emissions trading scheme two decades ago before John Howard swept in to scuttle the plan. ... read full post
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! ... read full post