Energy and the Earth
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Imagine listening to your CEO explain sales down 30% on forecasts of just five years ago when your company signed off a multi-billion dollar investment plan designed to secure its share of the predicted…
Caroline is a curious beast. It is not just that she just keeps on giving and that she turns a handy profit for her owners. The curiosity is in what she gives. Since she started back in the late 1960’s…
We are told by the government the carbon tax is a huge waste of money. Emissions, they say, are not coming down. Despite throwing billions of dollars at it, there has been no appreciable result, they claim…
With the hype surrounding the US gas-boom, it’s something of a worrying and cautionary note to read in the Financial Times outgoing Shell CEO Peter Voser quoted as saying his “huge bet on US shale was…
For more than a decade, climate science has been flagging the need to greatly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. To avoid the possibility of serious and irreversible global warming, climate science…
Yesterday’s (5th August, 2013) Australian Story ‘Corridors of power’ featured the battle between the Manning Alliance and TransGrid over the proposed high voltage transmission line from Stroud to Landsdowne…
One of the certainties in the energy business used to be the regular year-in, year-out rise in demand for electricity [1]. Up until about 6 years ago, demand growth could be counted on with metronomic…
In a recent speech at a combined Melbourne Energy Institute-Grattan Institute seminar at the University of Melbourne, Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Environment and Heritage Greg Hunt, MP, outlined…
Each June BP publishes its “Statistical Review of World Energy”, a compendium of the latest trends in the global energy system. After the June 2012 release, I commented on the remarkable trends in coal…
The purpose of our various clean energy policies - such as the carbon tax, the renewable energy target and, to some extent, the various energy efficiency measures - is to reduce the carbon emissions from…