Environment Victoria: Early Yallourn closure can be absorbed by increasing renewable energy supply, new analysis finds

New research shows that clean energy solutions can replace Yallourn, Australia’s dirtiest power station by 2023, avoiding supply shortages and price spikes with smart investment in replacement renewable supply and storage.

The research shows we can get all the clean energy and storage we need to replace Yallourn by 2023 from projects already proposed, along with smart energy solutions like demand management, virtual power plants of rooftop solar and home batteries to smooth out the closure of this coal clunker, and improving connections between power grids in Victoria and other states. This would cut pollution, bring new jobs and investment to Victoria, make our energy more reliable and keep power prices down.

19 May 2020

Environment Victoria: Response to the findings of the investigation into the Hazelwood have been fined mine fire

The Supreme Court of Victoria has handed down its findings on the 2014 fire at the Hazelwood power station.

13 May 2020

GREENPEACE AP: Report and documentary reveals extent of disinformation and climate-destroying projects approved during Black Summer bushfires

A new Greenpeace investigation has revealed that as Australia burned during the Black Summer bushfires, media reporting drove a viral misinformation campaign to protect the fossil fuel industry, while over 100 million...

10 May 2020

Nature Conservation Council: Centennial Coal vastly underestimates carbon emissions from major mine projects over 10 years

The company that supplies a third of the coal burned in NSW has under-estimated the carbon emissions associated with its mines by up to 97%, research by the Nature Conservation Council has...