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OP ED #1 CRITICAL MINERALS | More than a quarry: The growing investment into value-adding critical minerals mining in Australia
Renew Economy
By Tim Buckley and Matt Pollard, CEF. The energy transition will require a fundamental reshaping of the global landscape. We […]
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Tim Buckley on why fossil fuel producers should pay a $300 billion windfall super profits tax
ABC TV The Business
Tim Buckley is interviewed by Elysse Morgan on CEF’s Windfall Profits report: “Everyone in eastern Australia is paying record high prices for energy. Let’s make sure the ‘winners’ from Putin’s war on Ukraine – the fossil fuel multinationals – actually pay some tax and help absorb the impact on the rest of us.”
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The astonishing gas crisis in Australia
Les Echos, France
Tim Buckley reflects on how the former LNP government’s policy chaos has deterred investment in decarbonisation, leaving us vulnerable to dependence on fossil fuel hyperinflation.
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OP ED | When the finance moves get out of the way: How capital is driving the transition to net zero
The New Daily
Green finance is accelerating globally, and is playing a critical role in achieving climate action at the scale required to solve the climate challenge, as Tim Buckley writes.
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The world’s third richest man sells a green dream based on coal
Bloomberg
Tim Buckley on Gautam Adani’s unsurpassed political sway in India and the realpolitik that he will need to commit to exiting coal.
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‘Deflationary’ wind farms inflating these stocks
The Australian
The reason behind the rise of renewables in recent years turns out to be as much about economics as it is about decarbonisation, according to Tim Buckley.
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NSW government’s commitment to pumped hydro storage, ABC Illawarra
ABC Radio
The government announced support for five new pumped hydro schemes across the state.
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Government pumps $44m into hydro projects to plug energy gaps
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Buckley highlights the need for investment in geographically and technologically diverse energy, e.g. solar, wind-pumped hydro and other technologies as climate change and its costs accelerate.
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Got gas: Do super profits call for super taxes?
Stockhead
Tim Buckley comments in this piece on the case to tax fossil fuel war-profiteers’ financial bonanza.
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OP ED | Moving beyond 82% RE by 2030 needs pumped hydro investment now
Renew Economy
Tim Buckley commends NSW commitment to PHS but says that Australia also needs to upscale a range of firming technologies, batteries and grid connectivity.
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Huge profits for fossil-fuel giants Woodside and Santos stoke calls for windfall tax
The Guardian
Senator David Pocock and former Labor foreign minister Bob Carr join Tim Buckley in pressing the government to match nations like the UK and Indonesia and claw back fossil fuel multinationals’ superprofits.
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The problems with Snowy Hydro
ABC NewsRadio
As energy minister Chris Bowen sacks the CEO of Snowy Hydro 2.0, Tim Buckley on cost blowouts in the scheme and conflict over the use of green hydrogen in the Kurri Kurri power plant.
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