Indian-owned coal company Gujarat NRE warns that a carbon tax will cause stratospheric price rises for beer, bread, shirts and petrol, writes Giles Parkinson.
Clean coal
Labor’s form on climate policy: what not to do next
If inroads are going to be made, Labor needs to show some backbone on carbon pricing and mitigation objectives, writes Andrew Macintosh, associate director of the ANU Centre for Climate Law and Policy.
Milne: Greens’ vision for renewables obscured by coal dust
One of the most troubling and baffling casualties of this campaign has been the renewable energy sector. This is particularly baffling because renewable energy is massively popular in the community and has been repeatedly demonstrated to be technically ready to power Australia at a competitive price. The public response to Beyond Zero Emissions’ 100% renewable […]
Carbon-free reporting? Not when it’s about old king coal’s new palace
Readers of media reports on the Queensland government’s go-ahead late last week for the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland could be forgiven for thinking that the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) project will be carbon free, writes Bob Burton, a Hobart-based freelance journalist.
A radioactive issue for the Coalition?
Why has Ian Macfarlane completely reversed his opinion on Carbon Capture and Storage — from such a strong advocate of the when in government to his recent denunciation on Four Corners? asks Michael James.
CCS Institute comes clean on clean coal
In somewhat surprising and welcome candour, the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute’s latest report suggests that there is a low likelihood of CCS being economically viable before 2030 to 2040, writes Michael James.
Deconstructing the mining industry’s ETS data
A panel of Crikey experts deconstruct the mining industry’s job data manipulation for Australia’s emissions trading scheme.
Carbon capture and storage is an expensive pipe dream
Carbon capture and storage may be possible, but it certainly does not look commercially feasible.
Australian Coal Association: climate change is happening and fast
Those convinced climate change is some left-wing scam would do well to click over to what our biggest polluting industries are saying, writes Bernard Keane.
Green is the colour of money
The announcement of a $100 million research centre to focus on clean coal technology options is a welcome move by the federal government, writes Giles Parkinson.
Capturing the carbon from coal: Should we? Shouldn’t we?
Crikey spoke to two experts with differing views about the viability, the benefits and the common sense of Australia pursuing a coal with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS).
The Climate Institute defends its coal alliance
Has The Climate Institute unwittingly damaged their brand by announcing a “historic alliance” with the World Wildlife Fund, The Coal Association and the CFMEU? Sophie Black investigates.
Coming clean on ‘nice’ coal
CCS is experimental, unproven technology at the scale required, and if it works the majority of CCS deployment will not occur until the second half of this century, writes David Spratt.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Let us say here and now that we at Crikey are all for clean coal…
Divisions on clean coal won’t sink the enviro movement
By abandoning the polluter pays principle, WWF and the Climate Institute should be seen to have abandoned any remaining pretence of being part of the mainstream environment movement, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
A handy guide for Chinese student protesters
The following points are based on an internal document circulated by the Chinese authorities in Australia to the Chinese Students Association of 7-8 April.
Rudd and Howard far from agreement on climate change
John Howard says Kevin Rudd now agrees with him on climate change. Oh, really? asks Guy Pearse.
Rubbery figures in Howard ‘clean’ energy targets
John Howard’s renewable energy targets are based on errant maths or creative accounting, writes Greens Senator Christine Milne.
Nice profit BHP, shame about the environment
The coverage of BHP’s profits fails to make this connection and fails to ask a very basic question: if climate change is such a threat, then why is it good that BHP continues to mine and export even more coal and other climate-changing products?
