Green iron water guzzler
WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by
WA’s budding zero-emissions iron industry will consume vast amounts of water if Fortescue drawing upon an extra 60 Optus Stadiums’ worth of groundwater a year is anything to go by
Regular readers of this column with a critical interest in the renewables transition – differentiated from those who are blinkered true believers – will know that the intermittent nature of wind and solar energy is the Achilles heel of the Albanese Government’s strategy.
Around 6,000KM of new transmission lines are needed to deliver net zero emissions but with rising costs – industry experts have warned the economic rationale in spending billions may be weakening.
‘If you want to compete, and your economy ends up at risk, you’ve got to make difficult choices,’ said Brandon Craig who questioned whether Australia’s IR, tax and climate targets were at odds with its natural resource ambitions.
BP and Exxon are some of the big companies that have halted plans for low-carbon plants in recent months
More than 200 farmers and community members packed Shady Creek Hall last week to voice fierce opposition to multiple industrial-scale battery storage projects proposed for prime dairy country in West Gippsland.
A secret confidentiality deed has blocked public access to documents about Queensland’s failed $12bn pumped hydro project that allegedly contaminated farmers’ water supply.
The safety of workers and the integrity of renewable energy projects across the state has been called into question last week, after a nationwide audit was launched following the discovery of asbestos in wind turbine components.
One Nation will push for the construction of a nuclear reactor in regional NSW, as Pauline Hanson courts Barnaby Joyce to join the party.
Recent articles by Simon Holmes a Court and Rod Sims fail to reveal the true costs of renewable power
A former Treasury official has raised doubts about the department’s modelling on net-zero targets which claim green exports would exceed fossil fuel exports within seven years, even under a disorderly transition to net zero.
“Power bills are high but the rollout of renewables are not the cause.” Consider that sentence; a staggering understatement, followed by a brazenly false assertion.
