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Gasfield Free Byron Bay & Northern Rivers
Carrying on the activism from the huge community project of resisting the government backed mining insanity at Bentley NSW in 2015. This page includes posts from 2 FB pages: CSG Free Byron Bay & CSG Free Northern Rivers. – – – The aim of the Gasfield Free Northern Rivers movement is to protect the biodiversity, water resources, agricultural lands and sustainable industries of the Northern Rivers, and the livelihoods and wellbeing of the people who live here, from the impacts of coal seam gas (CSG) and other forms of unconventional gas mining. Our objective is to have the Northern Rivers region declared a CSG and unconventional gas free zone, and for all current licenses and leases that allow such activities to be revoked.
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Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas – Echonetdaily
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The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconve...Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel is driving the development of Australia's Technology Investment Roadmap, which could help us reach net zero emissions by 2050. Engineering expertise and integration will be key to success, according to an Engineers Australia submission.
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Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel is driving the development of Australia’s Technology ...www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53349974
Clean energy future 'is vital' - UN chief
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The UN Secretary-General tells a meeting that it is "vital" the world moves towards clean energy.“The future will like arrive in part by design and in part by disaster. Our challenge is to try to constitute the future through planning and community action, not have the future constitute us,” - Samuel Alexander
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Echonetdaily today on the unconventional gas situation and what you can do about it www.echo.net.au/2020/07/planet-watch-the-madness-and-corruption-of-unconventional-gas/
Planet Watch: the madness and corruption of unconventional gas – Echonetdaily
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The people of the Northern Rivers of NSW breathed a big sigh of relief when they stopped the unconve...
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Is green hydrogen the sustainable fuel of the future?
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The Russian whistleblower risking it all to expose the scale of an Arctic oil spill catastrophe
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Vasily Ryabinin stood on the banks of the River Daldykan and pushed a long stick into the blood-oran...“There’s a fundamental change hitting the entire oil and gas sector,” WoodMac’s vice-president for corporate analysis, Luke Parker, said.
“Just a few years ago, few within the oil and gas industry would even countenance ideas of climate risk, peak demand, stranded assets, liquidation business models and so on. Today, companies are building strategies around these ideas.”
If that reflects the global picture, the story among Australia’s oil and gas businesses – which until recently have been enjoying booming growth selling LNG to Asia, and driving most of the increase in national greenhouse gas emissions – is less clear.
The idea of stranded assets due to climate change is not new. It suggests carbon-intensive projects potentially worth trillions risk becoming next-to worthless – stranded – if investors abandon them in favour of emissions-free technology, as required to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
In Australia, the risk is recognised by the country’s major financial institutions and regulators, and has increasingly become a focus of shareholders. Earlier this year they gave resolutions calling for climate action and transparency at oil and gas companies Woodside Energy and Santos more than 50% and more than 40% support, respectively. Activist shareholders are not persuaded by suggestions support for gas is justified as it emits less than coal when burned, and point to studies suggesting it may release more emissions than previously thought.
‘Double-whammy effect’
On coal, where the concept of climate risk is increasingly accepted, Australia’s second-largest superannuation fund, First State Super, last week announced it would divest from any company that earns more than 10% of revenue from thermal coal mining. It followed an earlier, similar statement by Hesta, and three of Australia’s four major banks promising to soon stop supporting thermal coal.
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From Covid-19 to climate: what's next after the global oil and gas industry crash?
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While oil and gas are not alone in struggling in the economic slump, the reality of the climate cris...'Like throwing a grenade': historic town braces for coal mining threat
'Like throwing a grenade': historic town braces for coal mining threat
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Residents of Wollombi in the Hunter Valley have vowed to resist plans for mining in their region.oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-Oil-Gas-Sector-Could-Already-Be-In-Terminal-Decline.html
The Oil & Gas Sector Could Already Be In Terminal Decline | OilPrice.com
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The fossil fuel industry has faced serious headwinds for several years, but the rise of renewables c...Renewable energy development often runs into a “chicken and egg” problem: developers won’t build projects until there are transmission lines to take the power to consumers, and transmission companies can’t justify building lines until there are generators to connect. Good projects can sit on the shelf for years waiting for this stalemate to resolve.
Kean is short-circuiting the problem with the Australia’s first two renewable energy zones, or Rezs.
Under Kean’s Rez plan, the state is stepping in to facilitate the development of infrastructure to support 11 gigawatts of new renewables – 3GW in the central west, near Dubbo, and 8GW in the New England region. Both Rezs have excellent wind and solar resources, and opportunities for pumped hydro energy storage.
It’s almost a “build it and they will come” strategy, except the state is only spending $119m of its own money on planning and engineering design and will use federal funding to underwrite the infrastructure.
Under the plan, renewable energy developers will purchase access rights to the new infrastructure. With secure rights, developers can start building sooner and access cheaper capital, which will result in lower costs to supply energy.
The first central west Rez has ignited the renewable energy sector. When the state government put out a request for registrations of interest, it was nine times oversubscribed. A recent renewable investor confidence survey gave the highest score to NSW.
The New England Rez is expected to attract $12.7bn over the decade and, at a time when Covid has led to record unemployment, will bring very welcome jobs – 2,000 for the next decade, and 1,600 jobs ongoing.
What’s stunning is how much ambition has shifted, and how it’s being driven by the states. Just two years ago the modelling for Josh Frydenberg’s failed national energy guarantee predicted that NSW wouldn’t build a single wind or solar farm from 2021 to 2030. Now Kean has a plan to build as much large-scale renewable energy this decade in NSW as all of Australia built over the past 20 years.
The total output from the 11,000 megawatts of projects in the two Rezs will be very significant. By the end of the decade, the Rez could generate 40% as much energy as NSW currently generates from coal. Frequently, when the zones are enjoying favourable conditions, there will be periods where there’s no need for any coal power.
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