Frontier outlines plans for state’s biggest solar battery hybrid project to replace coal

Frontier unveils plans to create 1.7 GW solar battery hybrid project in W.A. to help fill gap from coal and gas plants due to retire by end of decade.

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Utility giant writes off coal assets as it transitions to renewables and storage

Leading utility writes off remaining value of its coal fired power generators and posts massive loss as it prepares to switch on one of the country’s biggest batteries.

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Fossil fuel production has driven a staggering rise in Queensland’s energy emissions

Queensland’s grid emissions have fallen, thanks to more renewables, but its vast industry extracting and exporting fossil fuels has driven an alarming rise in emissions.

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Queensland LNP vows to burn coal “for many decades” as federal Labor wrestles with climate pledge

Queensland LNP government vows to burn coal for “decades”, creating new uncertainty for renewables, and headaches for federal Labor’s upcoming climate pledge.

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Parkinson Report: Australia’s decision makers are ignoring climate, hailing coal and impersonating Elvis

Australia’s decision makers are letting off carbon bombs, dressing up as Elvis and are not even bothered to ratify a crucial high seas treaty. What hope do we have?

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Ireland closes last coal generator, becoming 15th country in Europe to quit the fossil fuel

Fifteen countries in Europe have now eliminated coal from their electricity mix following the closure of a 40-year old, 915 MW power station.

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5-year forecast sees more killer heat, fires and temperature records https://japantoday.com/category/world/5-year-forecast-sees-more-killer-heat-fires-and-temperature-records

Just ask Anthony Albanese & the #Australian government how they are contributing to that.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #WarmingAtmosphere #WarmingPlanet #ClimateAction #FossilFuels #Gas #Coal #NoMoreCoal

5-year forecast sees more killer heat, fires and temperature records

Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast. There's an 80% chance the world will break another annual temperature record in the next five years, and it's even more probable…

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NSW approves extension of its second most polluting coal mine, to the benefit of no-one but its owner

NSW government extension approval has effectively inflated a coal mine’s sale value while shifting the climate and social costs onto the public.

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THIS IS F*CKING DISGUSTING. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) has given the middle finger to the likely environmental effects on the fish and water quality, etc., etc., etc. and approves the Northback Holdings Corporation's coal exploration project at the Grassy Mountain site on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/northback-coal-mining-approved-1.7536463 #cdnpoli #NOMORECOAL
Alberta regulator approves Northback coal exploration project in Rockies | CBC News

The Grassy Mountain project was rejected in 2021, when a panel ruled the mine's likely environmental effects on the fish and water quality outweighed potential economic benefits. The project was revived two years later.

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