Mining
Santos CSG flaring on the Pilliga makes a mockery of 'total' fire ban

Did you know that Santos and all gas companies are not only allowed to flare CSG well during total ...  
COP21: Who is setting Australia's agenda on climate change?

When it comes to action on climate change, the Government has permitted "big business" to take out ...  
NSW approves Mt Thorley-Warkworth coal mine extension using flawed data

The NSW Baird Government has approved the controversial extension to the dud Mt Thorley Warkworth ...  
Coal: The black cloud on Turnbull's horizon

Despite the hint of a breeze blowing through Australia’s climate policy space in the wake of ...  
Qld CSG emissions damage bill to cost an eyewatering $23 billion a year

When Lachlan Barker wrote that headline, we could hardly believe it. We know coal seam gas (CSG) ...  
Wind and solar: Does Australia have a blind spot?

Even the International Energy Agency says solar will be the biggest single source of electricity ...  
Australia must double or triple current efforts on climate change according to new report

To limit global warming developed nations need to significantly reduce their reduction efforts and ...  
SA Royal Commission: Nuke waste dump on Aboriginal land? Really?

If SA's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission results in Australia becoming the world's nuclear ...  
Latest coal import figures deal further blows to Adani and Shenhua

Plunging coal prices and slump in demand from India and China highlights the sheer stupidity and ...  
Adani approval: the experts respond (not that Greg Hunt is listening)

As the rest of the world moves to divest from coal, and deliver policies at the Paris Summit to ...  
Why Australia is important to the small nuclear lobby

Elsewhere in the world, proponents of small nuclear reactors are pitted against the large react ...  
Report: How coal and gas get their way in fossil fuel rich Queensland

A new report by The Australia Institute details the complex interactions between the coal and gas ...  
SA Royal Commission: Who wants to be a nuclear billionaire?

Noel Wauchope navigates the complex web of ambiguity behind submissions to South Australia's ...  
Investors run for the exits from fossil fuels as Paris Summit looms

As momentum builds for a new deal on climate change, investors are becoming increasingly nervous ...  
Exxon's long conspiracy of silence on global warming

The failure of Exxon to act 30 years ago on critically important scientific information about ...  
Frydenberg signals $5 billion taxpayer frolic with Adani's unwanted fossil flop

In a shock interview yesterday, the Turnbull Government’s new energy and resources minister ...  
#CoalisAmazing? A brief history of mining industry spin

Coal’s critics have had their fun on Twitter with the Minerals Council's latest clumsy ads ...  
GVK Hancock's Galilee mine might have scored a legal win but can it score the funds?

Gina might have bagged a win in court, but it's a hollow victory for Rinehart's GVK Hancock's ...  

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