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  • Australia

World’s Biggest Battery Race Gets New Contender in Australia

Another big battery project has been announced in Australia, as energy storage developers rush to profit from the nation’s abundant sunshine and wind resources. Origin Energy Ltd. issued an expression of Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Jan 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

Sailors Stranded for Months as China Refuses to Let Coal Ships Unload

For the past six months, Virendrasinh Bhosale, a seafarer from India, has been trapped on a hunk of metal floating off China’s eastern coast. He is desperate to see his Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia’s Ambitious $16 Billion Solar Project Will Be The World’s Biggest

The world’s most ambitious renewable energy project to date is the proposed Australia–ASEAN Power Link . This project would combine the world’s largest solar farm, the largest battery, and the Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

Australia-China Spat Threatens LNG Deal

A sharp worsening in relations between Australia and China could threaten a deal that would have seen Woodside Petroleum sell a stake in a natural gas field and in the Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Hydrogen

Australia’s Commodities Heartland Set for Major Hydrogen Plant

The desolate red sands of the Pilbara region in western Australia, home to most of the iron ore mines that account for a major chunk of the nation’s export income, Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

BHP asked to defer coal shipments to China

BHP said on Oct. 14 that it has been asked to defer some shipments of coking coal to China because of new restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on Australian Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

Australia Worries Coal Is China’s Next Target as Ties Fray

Tensions between the two countries have reached new heights in recent months . After Australia began seeking support from European leaders for an investigation into China’s response to the coronavirus Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia Seen at Risk of Losing A$43 Billion in Green Spending

Australia risks missing out on at least A$43 billion ($31 billion) in investment over the next five years if it fails to set a target of net-zero emissions for 2050, Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Australia’s Ambitious Energy Plans At Odds With Lower Carbon Strategy

A drive to reduce emissions that is spreading faster than the coronavirus in the energy industry could see assets worth up to $17 billion put up for sale in Australia, Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Hydrogen

Australia’s NSW approves first hydrogen gas facility

The New South Wales government approved the eastern Australian state’s first hydrogen gas facility on Aug. 12 that could potentially supply gas to greater Sydney by 2025. Receive daily email Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Solar

How the Australia-ASEAN Power Link plans to make the island continent a solar superpower

Could Australia, one of the world’s biggest exporters of coal and natural gas, become a solar superpower? The island continent, distant from Asia’s megacities, plans to capture the plentiful Outback sun, Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Solar

Australia aims to become renewable energy export superpower

Australia has shipped vast quantities of coal and gas to fuel Asia’s rapid growth for decades. But amid global concerns over climate change, investors and a previously skeptical conservative government Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Battle Over Gas Project May Shape Australia’s Energy Future

A key battle over the future of fossil fuels and climate change will soon be decided in a sleepy corner of Australia. After a decade-long struggle pitting a mix of farmers, Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Solar Surge Is Making Coal Plants Unprofitable in Top Exporter

Even the world’s top coal exporter is struggling to make money from burning the fuel. Australia’s coal power plants, which make up more than half of the nation’s generation mix, Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Bone-Dry Australia Faces Backlash Against Dam Projects: ‘Dams Don’t Make It Rain’

To indigenous Australians Isabel and George Coe, the hills near a 280-foot-tall dam here are part of a sacred landscape that is dotted with burials and ceremonial sites. Now, new Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

China urges citizens to shun Australia as dispute simmers

China is advising its citizens not to visit Australia, citing racial discrimination and violence against Asians, in what appears to be Beijing’s latest attempt to punish the country for advocating Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Shell

Shell weighs sale of $2 billion-plus stake in Queensland LNG facilities

Royal Dutch Shell ( RDSa.L ) is considering raising more than $2 billion from the sale of a stake in the common facilities at its Queensland Curtis LNG plant in Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Climate

Australia Water Crisis: Climate Change, Industrial Farms Dry Up the Heartland

The early afternoon sun was pounding the parched soil, and Gus Whyte was pulling on his dust-caked cowboy boots to take me for a drive. We’d just finished lunch—cured ham, Continue Reading

Posted On : 2 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Australia Embarks On A Mammoth Renewable Energy Exporting Project

As well as being a world-class LNG exporter , Australia may soon become a major exporter of renewable energy. Engineers are now looking to connect Singapore with Darwin, using a Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Singapore

‘Sunshine to Asia’ Power Plan Moves Forward With Cable Contract

Survey work will soon begin on an ambitious plan to export power from a giant solar farm in Australia to Singapore via a 3,800 kilometer (2,360 mile) undersea cable. The Sun Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • USA

US reaches final deal to house Australia’s first oil reserve in SPR caverns

Australia has finalized a deal with the US to create its first emergency oil stockpile and store it in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve caverns on the Gulf Coast. Receive Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Australia Plans to Boost Oil Stock in Support of Global Market

Australia will increase its oil stock through an agreement with the U.S. to help support the global market, following a video conference with G-20 energy ministers. Energy markets in Australia were Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Climate

Great Barrier Reef Hit By Mass Bleaching, Climate Council Says

Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef has suffered its third mass coral bleaching in five years, according to early results of aerial surveys over the World Heritage site. “I saw coral bleaching Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Hydrogen

Australia’s Island State Touts 10-Year Plan to Export Hydrogen

Tasmania will invest A$50 million ($33 million) to build a renewable hydrogen industry, as the island state plots a course to commercial exports of the clean fuel by 2030. Australia’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Great Australian Bight: Equinor abandons controversial oil drilling plans

Drilling in the Great Australian Bight could spoil the marine environment, critics argued Oil giant Equinor has abandoned controversial plans to drill in the Great Australian Bight in a move Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Norway’s Equinor to discontinue ‘uncompetitive’ exploration in Great Australian Bight

Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor said Tuesday it will discontinue exploration in the Great Australian Bight off the country’s southern coast after deciding the program was “not commercially competitive.” Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Environment

The Fires Are Out, but Australia’s Climate Disasters Aren’t Over

Standing in thick mud between burned trees and a concrete slab where his house had been, Peter Ruprecht admitted that he was not sure how or when to rebuild. He Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • Climate

In Australia’s Burning Forests, Signs We’ve Passed a Global Warming Tipping Point

As extreme wildfires burn across large swaths of Australia, scientists say we’re witnessing how global warming can push forest ecosystems past a point of no return. Some of those forests Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Climate

In Wildfire’s Wake, Another Threat: Drinking Water Contamination

Wildfires that have devastated Australia in the last few weeks pose a risk to drinking water for millions of people. Credit: Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty Images Even Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Bushfires are still burning but Australia is moving ahead with plans to tap the world’s biggest reserve of coal, which is linked to climate change

The traffic is thick out here on a calm Coral Sea and, very soon, it may get worse. Much worse. The horizon is marked by two dozen ship hulls, the Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

In fire-hit rural Australia, climate debate burns deep

Returning from a morning feeding his sheep, Jeff McCole, a 70-year-old farmer, paused to take in the bittersweet scene – a few droplets of rain falling onto the remains of Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia

Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia

A four-day downpour across Australia’s east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia celebrates as heavy rains dampen huge bushfires

Much of Australia’s wildfire-ravaged east coast was drenched on Friday by the biggest rainfall in almost 20 years, dousing some of the most dangerous blazes and providing welcome relief to Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
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  • Australia
  • China

How the coronavirus outbreak is affecting Australia’s economy

The coronavirus outbreak is having adverse effects on many Australian industries, but it could provide some welcome news for motorists. Retailers are bracing for potential product shortages and sales drops Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia on standby for fire threat as heat, winds return

Australian authorities warned on Friday of severe fire danger in densely populated areas this weekend, declaring a state of emergency in the capital, Canberra, as soaring temperatures and strong whipped Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

‘You need a plan’: Heat, high winds may intensify bush fires advancing toward Australia’s capital

A bush fire burns behind a ridge near the town of Tharwa, about 20 miles south of Canberra, Australia, on Jan. 30, 2020. (Mick Tsikas/EPA-EFE/REX) A resident stops to take Continue Reading

Posted On : 31 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia’s capital city faces worst bush fire threat since 2003, as scorching heat plots a return

The country was never as hot and as dry at the same time as it was in 2019, which helped set the stage for the devastating fires. In December, Australia Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Heatwave and high winds threaten to reignite Australian wildfires

Swathes of southeast Australia were bracing on Thursday for a days-long heatwave that threatens to stoke bushfires that have been burning for months. As firefighters and residents prepared for the Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia may seek to impose nationwide natural gas reservation policy

Australia’s federal government may seek a national gas reservation policy that could have ramifications for the country’s LNG exports at a time when it has become the largest LNG exporter Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia’s Wild Weather: First Fires, Now Baseball-Size Hail

It was the latest wild turn in this most extreme of Australian summers. Large hailstones have rained down on Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra over the past two days, destroying vehicles, punching Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

In Australia, fires heat up environmental movement

When the flames swept up from the cove through the gum trees, Neda Cettnic signaled frantically that it was time for her grandchildren to get off the roof. It was Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia fires: Victoria braces for severe storms

Heavy rains have doused many of the country’s bushfires Forecasters have warned of severe storms in Australia’s fire-hit state of Victoria, which could lead to flooding. Recent heavy rains have Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Climate

Floods, road closures in Australia as storms lash some bushfire-hit regions

Parts of Australia’s east coast were hit by severe storms on Saturday, dousing some of the bushfires that have devastated the region for months but causing road closures and flash Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australians Are Ready to Break Out of the Cycle of Climate Change Denial

Argument Catastrophic fires make it hard for media to stick to old narratives. Australia, the fossil-fueled paradise at the bottom of the world, is too easily misunderstood. The summer bushfire Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia Is Dry as a Bone and Miners Need Water to Stay Afloat

A crippling drought in eastern Australia is threatening the production of commodities from coal to gold, sparking a scramble by companies for water to keep their operations going. The affected Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

James Murdoch attacks father’s news empire over bushfires

James Murdoch has criticized his father’s news outlets for promoting false skepticism about climate change as deadly bushfires tear across Australia, the original home of Rupert Murdoch’s news empire. In Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia’s Fires Test Its Winning Growth Formula

Australia’s remarkable prosperity rests on a balancing act. It mines coal, natural gas and iron ore from a vulnerable landscape. It takes ever more money from China while allied with Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia
  • Coal

Siemens to decide by Monday on controversial Australian coal mine project

Engineering giant Siemens will decide by Monday on its involvement in the development of a controversial Australian coal mine being built by India’s Adani, CEO Joe Kaeser said on Friday. Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australia bushfires merge to form ‘megafire’ 8 times as large as New York City

Australia’s bushfire crisis worsened Thursday night into Friday as hot, dry and windy conditions redeveloped across the country’s hard-hit southeast, causing two large blazes to merge into one. The new Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Australia

Australian firefighters get reprieve after tough night

Bushfire conditions on Australia’s east coast eased on Saturday after a tough night for firefighters, and authorities said they expect to have at least a week of milder weather where Continue Reading

Posted On : 11 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple

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