Energy
Australia's nuclear-powered PR in meltdown

With nuclear energy take-up shrinking post Fukushima, Australia continues to ignore the UN's call ...  
Papering over flaws in nuclear records

Despite a record-breaking year of global nuclear construction in 2015, a report by the industry ...  
Chocolates, bananas, ionising radiation and a nuclear waste dump

On the matter of ionising radiation and health, Noel Wauchope rebuts five misleading speakers ...  
Is a hung parliament good for the environment?

RenewEconomy's Giles Parkinson discusses the prospect of a hung parliament and what it will ...  
Nuclear waste importing: The taboo election topic

An international nuclear waste dump is planned for South Australia but it is hardly mentioned ...  
Brown coal's bleak future as Victorian Labor joins other Labor states to ramp up #renewables

Victorian Labor joins Labor states of SA, ACT and Qld in trumping the Turnbull Government on ...  
Why agriculture –  not gas or coal – is important for Australia

Recently released ABS figures illustrate steady growth for agriculture over coal and gas. Lachlan ...  
Escalating costs of nuclear power: too risky for Australia?

The nuclear industry worldwide faces an escalating battle to keep ageing reactors running as about ...  
Labor seeks to thrust #renewables onto election centre stage

With Turnbull’s “innovation” tethered to the right's fossil fuels push, Labor moves to  ...  
Jay Weatherill launches a nuclear propaganda juggernaut

Noel Wauchope examines Jay Weatherill's elaborate publicity campaign featuring so-called "citi ...  
The renewable energy revolution: Transforming our thinking

'The reality is our modern world can efficiently and effectively run on renewable energies ... ...  
Turnbull's #Innovation and #IdeasBoom is to flog fossil fuels. KaBOOM!

Transitioning the economy away from fossil fuel dependency is now the global catchcry. So why is ...  
ACCC gas report is nothing more than LNP propaganda

Has another government-funded entity, the ACCC, fallen victim to the Abbott/Turnbull Government's ...  
CSIRO's new report on #innovation focusses squarely on DICE-y coal technology

CSIRO's new report mapping Australia’s innovation and investment to 2030 focusses squarely on ...  
Jay Weatherill: Nuclear waste and citizens' juries

Jay Weatherill has announced the establishment of "citizens' juries" to debate the Royal Commissio ...  
10 holes in the Royal Commission's pro nuclear dump case

The Coalition’s long-held agenda of turning Australia into a global nuclear waste dump is about ...  
Four big reasons not to sell uranium to Ukraine

As the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster approaches, Noel Wauchope outlines just a few ...  
Peabody's grossly inadequate rehab bond

Peabody Energy's mines are closing and to add insult to injury, will likely abandon their destr ...  

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