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  • Backflip on Coogee methanol project

    October 12, 2012 - no Comments

    A company which one year ago said its $1 billion project would not go ahead because of the carbon tax has just given the project the greenlight. Methanol producer Coogee

  • La Trobe Valley coal plants get $1 billion compo

    April 3, 2012 - no Comments

    A cluster of coal burning Victorian power stations will share $1 billion in compensation from the Federal Government’s Energy Security Fund, set up to compensate Australia’s most carbon intensive generators

  • Australia falling behind G20 on low carbon transition

    March 20, 2012 - no Comments

    Australia is the only G20 country to have gone backwards in its preparation for low-carbon economic growth, according to the Climate Institute think tank. The institute’s low carbon competitiveness index,

  • Flood levy to hit green projects

    February 2, 2011 - no Comments

    Australia will cut or defer the spending of $500m for solar power and carbon capture and storage projects to help pay for flood damage in Queensland, prime minister Julia Gillard

  • Australia could be zero carbon by 2020 – at a price

    February 2, 2011 - no Comments

    Australia could shred all reliance on oil, coal and gas and become entirely dependent on renewable energy sources by the end of the decade, according to a report presented to

  • South Australia wind project refused approval

    January 24, 2011 - no Comments

    Plans for a $60m wind farm at Myponga near Adelaide have been scrapped, after the state government refused to let the developer vary the number and size of the turbines.

  • Bailieu government stands by Labor greenhouse gas targets

    January 18, 2011 - no Comments

    The Victorian Coalition government is standing by Labor’s target of a 20 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions this decade – but has not yet produced a plan on

  • Renewables booming – though not in Australia

    January 11, 2011 - no Comments

    Global investment in low-carbon energy surged to a record USD 243bn last year, boosted by a 30 per cent spending increase in China and a burst in small-scale solar-power installations.

  • New South Wales approves first large scale solar farm

    January 11, 2011 - no Comments

    New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, today approved the construction of a $300m solar farm to be built by Infigen and Suntech as part of a new joint venture.

  • Guidelines for farmers’ offset schemes released

    January 4, 2011 - no Comments

    The federal government has released draft laws outlining how its carbon offset scheme will work for farmers, forest growers and landholders. The Carbon Farming Initiative (CFI) will allow farmers, forest