PM Anthony Albanese, Santos boss call for quicker approvals
Santos’ chief has slammed approval processes for gas developments, urging them to be ‘more reliable and more workable’ if the PM’s goal to boost the number of gas fields is realised.
Santos’ chief has slammed approval processes for gas developments, urging them to be ‘more reliable and more workable’ if the PM’s goal to boost the number of gas fields is realised.
How on earth did Australia come to sign up to a $300bn to $350bn outlay on a renewables project that, partly because of high borrowing charges, will eventually cost $1 trillion spread over 35 years and lock our biggest states, NSW and Victoria, into exorbitant power prices for three decades?
How could Australia be suffering a double energy crisis when the nation exports several times more energy than it consumes and far more than the United States, which has no energy crisis?
Environment writers who claim the Iran war oil shock will be a boost for renewable energy don’t understand how industrial production actually works.
The science is never settled, and our leaders are afraid to admit it.
The NSW and Victorian renewables plan is set to be the biggest financial disaster since Federation and the Australian public was duped.
Upper Hunter MP Dave Layzell has called for EnergyCo’s New England Renewable Energy Zone team to be sacked following a series of alleged “insulting and defamatory” interactions with Upper Hunter landholders.
Farmers in northern Victoria’s Dookie region said they were blindsided by plans to declare the area a Renewable Energy Zone, warning the move threatens some of the most productive cropping land in the state.
Criminal syndicates have set their sights on remote renewable energy sites worth an estimated $35 billion, with industry experts fearing a “Wild West” scenario ahead.
Politicians play on “Australian-made” trucks that rely entirely on foreign parts as the nation’s complete manufacturing dependence threatens national security, writes Vikki Campion.
In just two decades, Australia has gone from energy self-sufficiency to dangerous dependence. Like the US, we can turn it around. The question is, will we?
