Qld provides a decarbonization template for the country - today moving to legislate 80% renewables by 2035 with publicly owned infrastructure and a jobs guarantee. Now we need to see strong emissions reduction targets to back it in ... couriermail.com.au/news/queenslan… via The Courier-Mail

It’s still October but Queensland already has bushfires burning and many people are rightly worried about the prospect of a catastrophic summer of heatwaves and fire storms, fuelled by the continued burning of coal and gas. #qldpol #auspol acf.org.au/qld-oct-bushfi…

CSIRO estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from the Beetaloo Basin and the Middle Arm gas hub at Darwin Harbour are flat out wrong, says Climate Analytics’s Bill Hare in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand. These projects are carbon bombs and must not proceed. theconversation.com/the-beetaloo-g…

REPORT: the projected emissions of the Northern Territory's proposed #Beetaloo Basin #gas fracking project & the Middle Arm LNG precinct in Darwin Harbour - as given to the NT and Federal govts - have been widely underestimated. A 🧵 climateanalytics.org/latest/beetalo…

Everywhere we looked, we found the CSIRO-GISERA report on the #beetaloo project had significantly underestimated emissions factors: - the emissions intensity of fracked gas - methane loss - LNG production, - the availability of offsets & - the capture rate for CCS. How so?

CSIRO GISERA have assumed an unrealistically low methane leakage rate of 0.7-1%. The average observed in the United States from fracking operations - of 2.3% - is much more likely. This is one of the biggest sources of their emissions underestimation.

The upstream emissions intensity estimated by CSIRO GISERA is up to two times lower than estimated for shale gas in US, China, EU. Upstream emissions include all production related emissions, reservoir CO2, venting, flaring, methane losses, energy used transporting gas.

They underestimated the GHG intensity for liquefying gas into LNG by abt 60%, assuming an intensity of 0.21 tCO2e/tLNG. This is well below the lowest-intensity plant (~0.25) - in north Norway. Cold temps drive down GHG intensity. It's 35 degrees warmer in Darwin than Norway

The Beetaloo fracking project and LNG plant could produce annual domestic lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions equal to up to 13% of Australia's total 2021 emissions. It would generate more emissions than the 2030 reduction goal under the new Safeguard Mechanism regulations.

Emisssions from Betaloo fracking and the Tamboran LNG plant would wipe out the benefits of moving Australia’s car fleet to electric by the mid 2030s three times over. Car emissions were 3.3% of national emissions in 2021

LIVE: Chalmers outlines vision for the 'defining decade' - including a 'uniquely Australian' revamp of energy policy to encourage an extra $225B investment in decarbonization ... theaustralian.com.au/nation/nation/…

LIVE: Chalmers outlines 4 national priorities for decarbonization and industry - 1. refining critical minerals, 2. green metals, 3. hydrogen and 4. manufacturing batteries and other generation + storage technologies theaustralian.com.au/nation/nation/…

Important speech by Chalmers, outlining government intervention to leverage $225B in investment to 2050 to decarbonize and transform the Australian economy, seizing opportunities like battery manufacturing, green steal and aluminum and processing critical minerals ...

Australia effectively agrees to resettle climate refugees from Tuvalu

In another major credibility hit to Dutton’s nuclear fantasy, the worlds most advanced Small Modular Reactor (SMR) project at the U.S. Dept of Energy’s National Laboratory in Idaho has been shut down due to cost over runs. Australia’s future is renewable not radioactive!

ALP’s climate credentials take their biggest hit so far by teaming up with the Coalition to pass legislation allowing the construction of the most polluting new offshore gas field in the world with the pipe dream of dumping the CO2 via CCS in the Timor Sea abc.net.au/news/2023-11-1…

Scientists sound the alarm as the world briefly smashes through 2-degree warming limit for the first time 9news.com.au/world/the-prel…

EU parliament agrees to develop 'Fossil Fuels Non-proliferation Treaty' to COP - Australia you're on notice to be on the right side of history ...

Bowen playing a constructive role trying to get COP to agree to a phase out of fossil fuels from global energy systems Chris Bowen theguardian.com/australia-news…

Nice early xmas prezzie for the planet - thanks Qld Premier Steven Miles - projecting the world's largest intact inland river system from Santos' fracking plans ...