Trolling coal: jobs, climate and the Iron Lady
The pre-recorded televised tributes have ended. The street parties are over. In Britain, the outrage that swelled in some quarters over the Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s faux state funeral has died away, leaving in its wake the dull, tedious thrumming of [...]
Raising the GST
In a sane world, Labor would also be contemplating the possibility of raising the GST. It seems that Joe Hockey, who circle-squaring challenge seems to get greater every time Tony Abbott opens his mouth, is at least broaching the idea, [...]
NSW coal generation under pressure
Well it is if the country stays on its present policy trajectory. Sophie Vorrath at RenewEconomy comments on the latest pitt&sherry electricity emissions update (April data). Back in 1998 coal used to supply 90% of NSW’s National Electricity Market (NEM) [...]
Climate clippings 72
The last Climate clippings was back in March 2012. I’ve decided to start it up again, so we’ll see how we go. What I try to do is to include up to eight entries with an average of no more [...]
Are 100% renewables possible?
The short answer is, yes, we can have 100% renewable electricity supply by 2050, or by 2030, but it will cost. Depending on the assumptions the cost will be between $219 and $332 billion, a very large figure. Yet this [...]
Electricity price conundrum: the effect of renewables
Rooftop solar costs are projected to add more than $240 per year to average electricity bills within five years, according to research from the Queensland Competition Authority (QCA). In November last year that’s what we were told would happen if [...]
European ETS
Last week when the European Parliament voted down a proposal to prop up the EU Emissions Trading System’s languishing carbon price by postponing the sale of 900 million emission allowances until the back-end of this decade the price fell to [...]
“Carbon tax” repeal: rhetoric and reality
On 4th April, Tony Abbott spoke to Craig Huth from Max FM in Taree, and was asked about the mechanics of rolling back Labor’s carbon trading plans should the Coalition win government in September. In keeping with party policy on [...]
Coal Seam Gas, Four Corners, and failed governance
Last night’s Four Corners focused on Coal Seam Gas, moving between the stories of farmers and claims by a whistleblower that the governance process for the approval of Santos and QGC projects by the Queensland Government in 2010 was flawed. [...]
International action on climate change – what’s happened?
As Brian’s post on the “new hockey stick” shows, the public policy implications of climate science haven’t changed a lot over the past few years. If we don’t all act, we are screwed. In fact, we may already be screwed. [...]
Has the carbon price worked?
Whyalla is still here. Iron ore (and, sadly, thermal coal) is still being exported by the megaton. Electricity prices haven’t risen dramatically. The Opposition, while still maintaining their intention to abolish the carbon price, have been pretty quiet about the [...]
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