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In #6 in CEF’s series on critical minerals, Matt Pollard and Tim Buckley review key Australian public financial capital initiatives and their role in accelerating Australia’s critical mineral supply chain value-adding projects, with a focus on key examples. Read more

Tim Buckley’s discussion on Sky News Afternoon Agenda with Kieran Gilbert on gas in this story in The Australian: “We have a gas cartel, according to the ACCC – 90 per cent of the gas reserves in eastern Australia are controlled by three consortia, which have ramped up the price on the east coast tenfold, 1000 per cent, in the last three, four, five years and we are now paying above export price parity”. Read more

Tim Buckley explains that considering energy from the perspective of baseload power is an outdated concept from a decade ago and needs to shift with decarbonisation. “The concept is completely different today because you are going to have negative power prices 20% or 30% of the time and that changes everything”. Read more

In his piece foreshadowing next month’s COP 27 and tracking global progress on decarbonisation, Nine/Fairfax environment editor quotes Tim Buckley on China: while it leads the world in coal use, it also leads in “wind and solar installation and manufacturing, EV production, batteries, hydro, nuclear, ground heat pumps, grid transmission and distribution, green hydrogen, literally every zero-emissions technology today.” Read more

Tim Buckley calls on Australian governments and industry to note the IEA’s forecast for the ongoing structural decline of coal, modelling up to a 45% decline globally by 2030. The agency also highlights the structural demand for key critical minerals and hence the opportunity for Australia as a world leader in critical mineral resources. Read more

As fossil fuels peak before 2030 and then decline, Tim Buckley notes that the IEA’s 2022 World Energy Outlook says a huge increase in energy investment, to above $4 trillion per year, is essential to reduce the risks of future energy price spikes and volatility, and to get on track for net zero emissions by 2050. Read more

Tim Buckley says that while the federal budget assumes a $953m contribution by limiting multinationals’ debt-deductions, there is no further insight on how majors like Exxon, Chevron, BP and Shell, who book Australian revenues in the tens of billion but pay zero corporate tax, will be made to pay their fair share. Read more

In part 2 of an extended interview, Tim Buckley gives a comprehensive breakdown of the positive energy transition initiatives in the 2022 budget, as well as the omissions and missed opportunities. Read more

In part 1 of a 12 minute interview, Tim Buckley gives a comprehensive breakdown of the positive energy transition initiatives in the 2022 budget, as well as the omissions and missed opportunities. Read more

Tim Buckley comments on the Federal Budget, including its lack of attention to tackling the revenue costs of fossil fuel subsidies. Read more

Tim Buckley writes that the federal budget is pragmatic and aligned with the government’s positive energy transition commitments. However, the absence of any meaningful, long overdue fossil fuel tax reform, which would generate revenue to offset the power price hyperinflation smashing Australians, is a major omission. Read more

Tim Buckley: “At the end of the day we’ve got an energy crisis, a cost of living crisis, a climate crisis. We need to reform the tax system to make it fairer and make sure multi-nationals pay … [and] quantify the benefit to Australia in terms of corporate tax receipts and reductions of fossil fuels.” Read more