Michael Fraser has a dual personality: he heads up a company with a massive carbon footprint that is also heavily involved in renewable energy. So why is he walking both sides of the line — and how did this quiet company man rise to the top? Climate Spectator and Crikey investigate.
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ELECTRICITY GENERATION
Electricity supply: are we in for summer brownouts?
Some years ago there were dire predictions we might run out of electricity supply during heatwaves. Tony Wood from the Grattan Institute asks what happened to electricity during the last (hot) fortnight.
READ MORECarbon price v privatisation — which is worse in the Latrobe?
A new report suggests the Latrobe Valley will fare better under a carbon price than under electricity privatisation. Not that that was how it was reported.
READ MOREWhat electricity will really cost under a carbon tax
Media beat-ups aside, the proportion of the carbon price that is passed onto consumers remains a great unknown. ANU’s Andrew Macintosh The Australia Institute’s Richard Denniss report.
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Wind farms, the Waubra Foundation and a post-office box
Senator John Madigan is due to call for a total moratorium on all wind farm development while the rest of the world reached a record level of output, with wind now contributing 3% of the world’s electricity generation.
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