Decarbonisation
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Massive missed opportunity: NSW could make $23bn with tiered tax on record coal profits
The Guardian
Tim Buckley notes that a ‘small number of fossil fuel-exporting companies are making windfall gains,’ making the case for a Queensland-style progressive royalties system in NSW.
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Fortescue to spend $6.2bn to curb iron ore emissions
Bloomberg
For Fortescue to meet its target of “real zero” in its operations by 2030 would be “a serious challenge,” Tim Buckley said in an interview with Bloomberg.
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Private owners net millions in sale of ageing NSW coal-fired power station
The Guardian
Tim Buckley labels Delta Electricity’s sale of Hunter power station to Sev.en Global Investments as ‘worst of all outcomes’.
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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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‘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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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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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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What if China saved the world and nobody noticed?
Sydney Morning Herald
Tim Buckley: “While China leads the world in coal use, it also leads in wind and solar, EV production, batteries, hydro, nuclear, heat pumps, grid transmission and distribution, green hydrogen – every zero-emissions technology today.”
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This is total greenwash: Santos claims massive Alaska oil project will be carbon neutral
Renew Economy
Tim Buckley says a reliance on carbon offsets to deal with the emissions output of the project is fundamentally flawed.
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Mt Arthur coalmine – BHP fails to find a buyer
ABC TV The Drum
Tim Buckley interviewed on BHP’s inability to find a buyer to offload its huge Hunter Valley Mt Arthur coal mine, the $1-1.5bn rehabilitation costs for the toxic mine site, and the federal LNP’s government’s failure to support investment in the renewable energy future.
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