Yesterday
The juggernaut keeping CSL’s valuation pumping despite Ozempic threat
CSL managed to shrug off the Ozempic effect and this week’s setback linked to a disappointing phase three trial thanks to its CSL Behring blood products business.
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This Month
Teals, Greens taunt Labor on carbon tax proposal
Teal independent Allegra Spender said carbon pricing should be on the table along with scrapping the $8 billion of annual fossil fuel subsidies for off road vehicles users and other special interests.
Blackout sparks calls to harden energy grid
Business is questioning Victoria’s move away from gas while farmers accuse the state of a lack of planning, a day after wild storms took down power lines.
Resurrect carbon price to fund superpower: Garnaut, Sims
Professor Garnaut will say reviving the carbon price is “not as impossible as passing on to our children and grandchildren lower standards of living than our own parents and grandparents left to us”.
CSL shares slide on ‘dampened’ Vifor outlook
News of the downgraded outlook for Vifor overshadowed an 11 per cent increase in underlying first-half group net profit and a similar increase in the interim dividend.
$7b wiped off CSL shares after ‘second heart attack’ drug setback
Head of research and development Bill Mezzanotte said in November that CSL112 was one of three potential blockbuster drugs in its development pipeline.
Gina Cass-Gottlieb enters the climate fray
The idea that an efficient transition to clean energy is in the public interest and could trump the ACCC’s core purpose was revolutionary to some.
Meet the most influential figures in the energy transition
Australia’s energy transition leaders from government, business and capital markets – who are the movers and shakers in 2024?
Energy distribution companies need radical reform: report
The Energy Security Board says the firms need to be held accountable for making rooftop solar work as a key part of the energy transition.
How regional Australia could see jobs boost from energy transition
The clean energy sector has received a boost in its battle against “Reckless Renewables” campaigners from a federal government report.
Why AGL is trialling a battery built for space
When AGL went looking for an alternative battery chemistry to lithium-ion, it chose nickel-hydrogen – a type that until recently was mostly used in space.
Moneymakers or wildlife killers? Communities at odds over renewables
Many farmers say they can coexist with renewable energy projects but some in rural and coastal communities are ramping up their opposition.
BlueScope ‘old’ blast furnace grant slammed by experts
Experts were surprised at the grant as they understood BlueScope had missed out on a Hydrogen Headstart grant that would have better advanced green steel plans.
January
Why aren’t there solar panels on apartment blocks? This start-up has a fix
Start-up Allume says the roofs of apartment blocks are a huge untapped opportunity for household solar - but obstacles still remain.
- Analysis
- Due diligence
Is lithium’s brutal comeuppance a buy signal?
Possibly not – it seems a typical commodity boom and bust cycle has set in, and the prudent answer is “not yet”.
Power grid alert as north-south divide opens up
A gap has emerged between Queensland and NSW – where grid demand is rising and prices are high – and Victoria and South Australia, where demand and prices are low.
The week that put ‘green lawfare’ in the dock
Claims against fossil fuel projects based in Indigenous cultural heritage suffered a setback after the emphatic dismissal of a case blocking Santos’ Barossa project.
Barossa one of the new projects pushing up carbon bill
RepuTex analyst Anton Firth estimates Barossa will emit 19 MT CO₂ between its commencement in 2025 and 2030.
EDO lawyer slammed by judge in Santos case moves on
An Environmental Defenders Office solicitor found by a judge to have distorted the words of an Indigenous witness has left the organisation.
- Opinion
- Gas
Environmental lawyers get a lecture in how to litigate
Those seeking to oppose gas projects cannot hide behind elaborately constructed or confected Indigenous heritage claims.
