Energy
New oil and gas well investment stalls as prices nosedive

Nosediving prices for oil and gas mean investment in new fields, including in Australia, is being ...  
Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power station launches global campaign for 1,000GW of solar

Here's a turn up! Engie, the owner of Hazelwood, Australia's dirtiest coal-fired power station, is ...  
Queensland's collapsing LNG industry

The oil price war is inflicting further damage on Queensland's collapsing LNG industry. Lachlan ...  
World's top 6 wind energy stories: Cost down 60% since 2009

The rest of the world is powering ahead with wind, according to Professor Juan Cole. Sadly, not so ...  
ARENA tender suggests solar PV costs to fall below $A100/MWh

ARENA shortlists 22 renewable energy projects for $100 million funding with solar projects falling ...  
Environment department’s comments back whistleblower’s claims on CSG approval

A recent Right to Information response shows that the Queensland Department of Environment and ...  
Renewables could supply all Russian and Central Asian energy needs by 2030

Renewable energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with all the electricity they ...  
Whistle-blower Simone Marsh's new exposé: the corrupt birth of the Queensland gas industry

Courageous whistle-blower, Simone Marsh, shines a further spotlight into the murky and corrupt ...  
Five big nuclear issues for 2016 — and Australia's role in them

Nuclear issues got next to no discussion in Australia in 2015. That is sure to change in 2016 from ...  
COP21: Euphoria as Paris finally seals the deal

In Paris on Saturday, 196 member states of the United Nations signed an important agreement aimed ...  
COP21: Fairness and justice for all humanity must guide our Paris decisions

When reaching decisions on how to tackle climate change, the industrialised rich West needs to ...  
What next — an inquiry into infrasound from trees, waves and air conditioners?

If the Senate Committee into windfarms is sincere in its concerns about the health effects of ...  
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 ...  
Coal comfort: The atomic emasculation of Malcolm Turnbull

Watching Malcolm Turnbull pander to the antedeluvians in his own Party on the same progressive ...  
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 ...