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Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery mine given green light by environment minister

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Post date September 16, 2021
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Whitehaven Coal’s Vickery mine given green light by environment minister

Sussan Ley’s decision denounced as a ‘betrayal of young people’ and follows a federal court ruling that she has a duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis

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Federal Court judge orders minister to explain ‘sudden’ $21m Beetaloo Basin fracking grant agreement

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Post date September 14, 2021
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Federal Court judge orders minister to explain ‘sudden’ $21m Beetaloo Basin fracking grant agreement

A Federal Court judge says he is “concerned” by Federal Resources and Water Minister Keith Pitt’s handling of a $21 million grant agreement with a gas company eyeing the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin.

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CoalKeeper set to dwarf Gillard’s carbon price

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Post date September 12, 2021
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CoalKeeper set to dwarf Gillard’s carbon price

Angus Taylor’s ‘CoalKeeper’ proposal would increase greenhouse emissions while slapping households with an increase in electricity prices greater than that of the carbon price.

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Taylor adds carbon capture and storage to clean energy agency’s plans

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Post date September 10, 2021
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Taylor adds carbon capture and storage to clean energy agency’s plans

Carbon capture and storage will for the first time be included in the investment strategy of Australia’s Renewable Energy Agency after a controversial change to its remit.

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Coal mine expansion above Sydney’s water catchment gets green light despite concerns

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Post date September 4, 2021
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Coal mine expansion above Sydney’s water catchment gets green light despite concerns

The Independent Planning Commission approves the Russell Vale coal mine expansion above Sydney’s water catchment despite concern about the miner’s $1 billion in debts.

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Kuwaiti Oil Fields Burned

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Post date August 31, 2021
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When the Oil Fields Burned (Published 2016)

In 1991, Saddam Hussein’s troops set off an inferno in Kuwait, creating an environmental catastrophe.

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‘No blank cheque’ on net zero carbon emissions target, Prime Minister says, as global ‘code red’ issued

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Post date August 10, 2021
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Other world leaders have called a UN report on climate change a ‘wake-up call’, but Australia’s PM isn’t going to budge

Scott Morrison again refuses to commit to a target of net zero emissions by 2050, as an international “code red” warning on climate change is issued by global leaders.

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Andrew Bolt: Evidence shows global warming scare may be ‘wildly exaggerated’

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Post date August 9, 2021
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Evidence shows global warming scare may be ‘wildly exaggerated’

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says there is news today which doesn’t fit the script of the “global warming scare” as evidence shows the fear may be “wildly exaggerated”. “How often have disaster junkies in the media predicted all kinds of climate catastrophes,” he said. “So many people – scientists, j…

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Climate change report from IPCC a ‘code red for humanity’, United Nations chief warns

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Post date August 9, 2021
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One of the most comprehensive climate reports ever was released last night. Here’s what you may have missed

The Earth could be just 10 years from heating by more than 1.5 degrees Celsius since industrialisation — a global warming threshold beyond which even more serious and frequent fires, droughts, floods and cyclones are expected to wreak havoc on humanity.