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Power crisis
ABC 7.30
Tim Buckley comments in this feature on the fossil fuel price crisis from Laura Tingle, ahead of energy ministers and national cabinet meetings expected to deliver solutions.
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OP ED | Fossil fuel majors are reaping obscene profits: A simple levy could protect Australians from hyperinflation
Renew Economy
With multinational fossil fuel corporations set to book $120-140bn gross war profits in CY2022 – as Australians are plunged into energy poverty and hardship by energy price hyperinflation – Tim Buckley outlines what the government needs to do to stem the crisis.
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Gas producers slammed for cartel amid unprecedented market failure
Sky News
Tim Buckley discusses the gas cartel gouging Eastern Australia with Kieran Gilbert on Afternoon Agenda, noting new CEF figures that show fossil fuel multinationals operating in Australia will book $120-140billion in profits as skyrocketing energy prices crush households and businesses.
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Anthony Albanese offers deal on coal price compensation but states want more
The Australian
Tim Buckley’s Sky News Afternoon Agenda with Kieran Gilbert interview features in this exclusive from The Australian’s chief political correspondent on the federal government’s plans to address the fossil fuel price crisis.
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Call to cap diesel rebate, sting gas firms
Canberra Times
As Tim Buckley says in this piece on solutions to the fossil fuel commodity price crisis across 100+ mastheads via AAP, it is time to cap the gas price, and fix coal royalties, the PRRT, multinational corp tax, and the diesel rebate to claw some dividends back for Australians.
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OP ED | Private profits and public pain: It’s well past time for action on fossil fuels
The New Daily
As Tim Buckley writes, no other industry has caused such significant economic hardship for Australians, all the while banking unprecedented profits. The free ride has to stop, and the interests of Australians must come first. As former ACCC chair, Rod Sims, has said, the government should show the gas industry its baseball bat.
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Critics pan ASIC as ‘toothless tiger’ amid anger over collapse of critical WA coal mine Griffin
ABC online
As a WA MP accuses ASIC of failing to properly investigate a collapsed coal mine threatening the state’s energy supplies, Tim Buckley says it was inexplicable that ASIC failed to scrutinise the company despite obvious red flags.
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Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani steps up green investments
AP
Though his wealth was built from coal mining and other heavy industries, early on Adani recognized the promise of renewable energy, says Tim Buckley, who has been tracking investments in renewables in Asia for decades.
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Indian coal magnate Gautam Adani goes green
Washington Post
Tim Buckley notes that while Adani doesn’t really think about climate science — he does understand the geopolitical and economic interests of India and he positions himself to solve that problem for his own and India’s benefit. Adani Green is what he will want to be his legacy.
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ESG Focus: Eye on green energy
FN Arena
Tim Buckley quoted on hydrogen in this overview on energy transition
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Is Australia’s clean coal a misnomer?
NZZ
Tim Buckley comments for German and Swiss media on the Australian coal quality certificate falsification scandal, noting that while the allegations are valid, the offences are not easy to prove as the coal industry had acted skilfully, with data only slightly changed and direct bribes avoided.
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Victoria’s election is a referendum on fossil fuels vs deflationary renewables
Renew Economy
In this op ed one day ahead of the Victorian election, Tim Buckley
notes that the Labor government has ambitious new policies that will put Victoria in a world-leading position of 95% RE and 80% emissions reduction by 2035, driving lower electricity prices, gas substitution and decarbonisation.
The LNP targets 50% emissions reduction by 2030, but with no policies to deliver on this – and a commitment to turbocharging gas, which will drive the climate crisis and do nothing to address the price crisis.
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