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- Net zero emissions by 2050 still not on the table but ‘clean’ hydrogen, ‘low carbon’ steel and CCS part of decade-long funding, Angus Taylor says
- Senator Ian the Climate Denialist Potato on the government's plans for gas | First Dog on the Moon 2 days agoIt is part of the journey from coal (my first love) to so-called renewables and then back to coal again after renewables destroy civilisation
- Scott Morrison refuses to commit to net zero emissions target by 2050 Sun, 20 Sep 20, 12:42pmPM says he’s ‘more interested in the doing’ as he walks back amount of new generation needed to replace Liddell coal plant from 1,000MW to 250MW
- Morrison trying to 'emasculate' Arena by shifting focus to carbon capture, Labor says Thu, 17 Sep 20, 6:26pmGreens join Labor criticism of overhaul saying it is ‘like taking money from the health budget and giving it to a tobacco company’
- Police expecting more lockdown protests on weekend – as it happened Thu, 17 Sep 20, 7:30pmQueensland registers one new case of Covid as Scott Morrison announces new energy plan that diverts funding away from renewables. This blog is now closed
- The Morrison government is sabotaging its renewable energy agency | Christine Milne Thu, 17 Sep 20, 4:12pmThis will undermine competitiveness, destroy innovation and prop up a failed polluting fossil fuel industry
- Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria police expecting more lockdown protests on weekend as state records 28 new Covid cases and NSW five Thu, 17 Sep 20, 5:53pmQueensland registers one new case of Covid as Scott Morrison announces new energy plan that diverts funding away from renewables. Follow all today’s news
- Angus Taylor's gas plan is an astoundingly bad idea, on so many levels | Simon Holmes à Court Thu, 17 Sep 20, 12:58pmThe federal government’s increasingly desperate and ideological energy market interventions are costing us all
- Coronavirus Australia live update: unemployment rate falls as Victoria records 28 new Covid cases and NSW five Thu, 17 Sep 20, 1:59pmQueensland registers one new case of Covid as Scott Morrison announces new energy plan that diverts funding away from renewables. Follow all today’s news
- Coronavirus Australia live update: Victoria records 28 new Covid cases and eight deaths – latest news Thu, 17 Sep 20, 10:00amCovid-19 restrictions ease in regional Victoria today as economists and international students call for expansion of jobkeeper. Follow all today’s news
- Coalition to divert renewable energy funding away from wind and solar Thu, 17 Sep 20, 3:30amScott Morrison says solar and wind are commercially viable and do not need subsidies from the $1.43bn funding
- The megafires and pandemic expose the lies that frustrate action on climate change | Tim Flannery Thu, 17 Sep 20, 3:30amIf there was a moment of true emergency in the fight to preserve our climate, it is now
- Advice to government contradicts Coalition claim over Liddell coal plant closure Wed, 16 Sep 20, 7:02pmTaskforce study does not back Scott Morrison’s claim that Liddell coal plant needs urgent replacing with 1,000 megawatts of new dispatchable electricity generation capacity
- Gas industry donates millions to Australian political parties Tue, 15 Sep 20, 2:18pmRecords show relatively even contributions to Coalition and Labor as Morrison government announces ‘gas-led recovery’ of economy
- Government to use $52.9m funding to unlock more gas for domestic market Tue, 15 Sep 20, 3:30amScott Morrison is championing a ‘gas-led recovery’ from economic shock of pandemic as booming LNG industry leads to increasing emissions