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Is it a cost-of-living election or a nuclear power election? Peter Dutton can’t have it both ways

17.01.2025 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath

Renewables superpower or climate coward? Albanese needs to make a choice before election

A major new report has detailed the “extraordinary economic opportunity” for Australia to replace its coal and gas exports with decarbonised...

21.11.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath

Nuclear won’t cut it: CCA says Australia must go all in on renewables to meet climate targets

Australia will not reach net zero emissions by 2050 under the federal Coalition’s nuclear power plan, according to a comprehensive new report...

08.09.2024 2

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath

‘Gas Trojan horse’: Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables

The chair of Australia’s largest group of clean energy investors has described the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear power as a “gas Trojan...

21.08.2024 1

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath

New England wind project shelved as local MP Barnaby Joyce takes anti-renewable vitriol to new low

Plans to build a 340MW wind farm and a big battery in the New England Renewable Energy Zone in NSW have been shelved by developer Ark Energy,...

31.07.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath