Archived News for Green Sector Professionals
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has mapped out potential paths from the future of electricity in Australia.
AGIG creates hydrogen goal
Australia’s biggest natural gas distributor wants new housing subdivisions to be powered by green hydrogen by 2025.
CEFC backs Gippsland plan
Authorities say a new project in Victoria shows energy and agriculture can co-exist.
Consumers back 'sun tax'
A consumer group has backed plans to allow energy networks to charge solar panel owners for sending surplus power back to the grid.
Millions back EV network
The Future Fuels Fund has been topped up to provide EV charging nationally.
Ranger health impacts reviewed
Aboriginal people living near the Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory are experiencing elevated stillbirth and cancer rates.
ABARES plots climate costs
The changing climate is costing every farm, on average, $30,000 every year, experts say.
Approvals risk green efforts
Experts say coal mine approvals in NSW will negate the state’s emissions-reduction measures.
Controversial cable car denied
The Hobart City Council has rejected a proposed cable car for kunanyi/Mount Wellington.
Food waste mined for molecules
Local experts are working on a new method to extract health-promoting molecules from agricultural and food waste for new products.
Regulator acting on sluggish pumps
Almost half of NSW’s big irrigators have failed to properly install meters on pumps.
ARENA aims at hard abatements
New government funding may help find emissions reductions in some particularly difficult areas.
Green board changes backed
A former Rio Tinto executive has joined the board of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
Huge title claim defined
Native title rights have been secured for more than three million hectares of land in outback Queensland.
State pushing for big new park
A compulsory acquisition will see almost 150 hectares of southern Gold Coast land become one of the largest eco-parks in the country.
AIMS studies seismic surveys
The Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) says seismic surveys in the Pilbara are not impacting the abundance or behaviour of commercially valuable fish.