Yesterday
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Jabiluka was cancelled by edict from above
The decision to mine the uranium deposit or not should have been taken by the parties involved, not through the high-handed intervention of an anti-nuclear government.
- Tony Grey
Nuclear talk finally goes ahead after Holmes à Court criticism
The engineer whose nuclear speech was cancelled the day renewable energy advocate Simon Holmes à Court objected to it has finally delivered the talk.
- John Kehoe
July
- Opinion
- Gas
We need to clear the runway for new gas supply
Growing acceptance from governments of the role of gas in the energy transition is yet to translate into actions to clear the backlog of projects stuck in regulatory approval purgatory.
- Samantha McCulloch
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Uranium mining bans belong to a previous era
Labor’s efforts to keep Australia’s energy transition uranium mining-free amount to a self-defeating hobbling of the nation’s green superpower hopes.
- The AFR View
That cool op-shop jacket could earn you carbon credits
Federal regulators are considering a proposal to offer financial incentives to consumers who buy second-hand clothes.
- Peter Ker
- Opinion
- Energy transition
The common sense path to net zero
Looking at the environmental crisis through the lens of financial frameworks, the core principles that drive good investment are also at play in climate change.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
Qld premier raises problem of water risk under Dutton’s nuclear plan
Labor Premier Steven Miles has quoted a new report outlining the need for a state-based plebiscite to adopt the Coalition’s nuclear plan.
- James Hall
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Delivering the world’s most important corporate rescue
What’s true for commodities is true for the greatest eleventh-hour turnaround in human history. In climate terms, that means “the cure for high emissions is high prices”.
- Kate Howitt and Gates Moss
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Hard energy reality has mugged Fortescue’s hydrogen dreams
Andrew Forrest is not alone. Many corporates have suffered a similar delusion about simple, easy and cheap transition.
- Patrick Gibbons
- Opinion
- Hydrogen
Picking green over blue is stalling our hydrogen superpower hopes
Labor’s tax incentive scheme maintains the habit of describing identical molecules with colours of the rainbow. It is out of step with Australia’s competitors and customers
- David Heard
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s an energy race between the implausible and the impossible
Peter Dutton has come up with a nuclear-powered cost of living wedge to expose Labor’s overreach on renewables and sustainability.
- Matthew Warren
- Opinion
- Energy transition
CSIRO brings science, not politics, to electricity cost debate
Some nuclear fans claim the agency has a position on Australia’s energy mix. That is both wrong and a misinterpretation.
- Doug Hilton
- Special Award
- Sustainability Leaders
This trailblazer turns destructive weed into a replacement for coal
Biomass Projects has plans to build the world’s largest biochar production on a 225,000-hectare Pilbara plot that is overrun with mesquite.
- Gus McCubbing
How solar beat every forecast to win the renewables race
Solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power plants in 2026, its gas-fired power plants in 2030 and its coal-fired ones in 2032.
- The Economist
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.
- Georgina Downer
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Energy transition will cost much more than politicians are pretending
The brutal reality is that taxpayers and consumers will be on the hook for much higher costs under a renewable or nuclear energy system.
- John Kehoe
RBA inflation target challenged by power prices
Other areas of the economy will need to offset the impact of higher than expected power prices to keep inflation within target, economists say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Ronald Mizen
Labor appoints former NBN boss as nuclear head
Mike Quigley has been appointed as the head of the federal government’s peak nuclear organisation.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Nuclear energy
There is a respectable economic argument for nationalised nuclear
The bottom line is that there are sound public choice arguments for the government to build and own nuclear power plants.
- Sinclair Davidson
June
- Opinion
- Emissions
Better carrot and stick provides investment certainty for carbon cuts
The climate safeguard mechanism for large emitting facilities means reaching the 43pc emissions reduction target by 2030 is certainly “doable”.
- Kerry Schott
