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Minister rejects carbon credit criticism

Criticism of the federal government's carbon credit scheme is "completely unfounded" and a political attack, the energy and emissions reduction minister says.

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Budget papers show Morrison government to reduce annual climate spending over next four years

Yearly expenditure on climate change programs expected to be 35% lower in 2025-26 than now

The Guardian - AU

New gas, technologies key to energy future

Vast gas reserves, technologies and new critical minerals projects will power economic growth and meet future energy needs, according to the budget blueprint.

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Russia’s murderous regime is propped up by oil and gas – Australia and the world must switch

The atrocities against Ukraine have to be stopped. Dismantling and replacing the fossil fuel system that funds the war is a good place to start

The Guardian - AU

Government plan to let renewable agency fund fossil fuels blocked after Liberal-led committee’s motion

Committee says changes should be made through legislation, not regulation, as energy minister says they will be revisited at a later date

The Guardian - AU

‘David and Goliath’ battle over waste-to-energy plan in Angus Taylor’s NSW seat generates electoral heat

Hume residents fear toxic pollutants will result from an incinerator many feel is being forced upon them

The Guardian - AU

Sold out: why Australia doesn’t have enough electric vehicles to go around

Waiting lists of thousands, cars selling out in seconds – welcome to the frustrating world of the Australian EV buyer

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Labor promises review of Australia’s carbon credit system after allegations it is ‘largely a sham’

Chris Bowen says Labor wants to ensure system has integrity after whistleblower’s claims

The Guardian - AU

It’s nonsense for Angus Taylor to suggest Australia could face an energy crisis like Europe’s

Australia already has energy independence and extracts more gas than it needs to meet domestic demand. Indeed three-quarters is exported as LNG

The Guardian - AU

Insider blows whistle on Australia's greenhouse gas reduction schemes

The former chair of the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee, Andrew Macintosh, says Australia's carbon offset schemes lack integrity.

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Australia’s carbon credit scheme ‘largely a sham’, says whistleblower who tried to rein it in

Prof Andrew Macintosh says the system, which gives credits for projects such as regrowing native forests after clearing, is ‘a fraud’ on taxpayers and consumers

The Guardian - AU

How much is it costing the Australian government to send 70,000 tonnes of coal to Ukraine?

The federal government is remaining tight-lipped about the cost of a deal made with Whitehaven Coal to ship thermal coal to Ukraine.

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Carbon credit companies to cash in on multi-billion-dollar windfall from the government

Private companies are set to receive a multi-billion-dollar windfall, after being allowed to break long-standing government supply contracts to cash in on a booming carbon credit market.

ABC News

Icac queries grant made by John Barilaro to company linked to Angus Taylor’s family

Icac refuses to confirm or deny if it’s investigating, but has asked questions about the $107,000 grant

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Angus Taylor attacks Beetaloo Basin activists and says Australia right to expand fossil fuels

Taylor says Australia has ‘kept our foot on the accelerator’ when it comes to supply of oil and gas

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Farmers’ fund to cover some of Angus Taylor company’s costs to challenge finding land cleared illegally

Energy minister in rare position of being linked to case opposing his own government’s decision on Jam Land, part-owned by Taylor and brother

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Morrison condemns Moscow’s ‘brutal’ attack on neighbour – as it happened

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Clean energy companies plea for government ‘not to get in the way’ of renewable shift

As Australia’s largest coal-fired plant announces an early closure, groups say government intervention in market ‘undermines confidence’

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Exit of coal-fired power station Eraring 'unlikely' to hit prices, but grid stability's a concern

Energy experts have hosed down concerns the early closure of Eraring coal-fired power station near Newcastle could spark electricity price spikes and throw the security of the grid into peril.

The Guardian - AU

The early closure of Australia’s biggest coal plant caught Angus Taylor by surprise – but it shouldn’t have

The shift to a grid that runs on renewables is a manageable transformation, but the federal government’s approach still frustrates

Newcastle Herald

Snowy Hydro boss says lot more gas plants in pipeline

Green groups have slammed the government for pushing ahead with its new power station.

Newcastle Herald

Ley gives Kurri power plant the green light

Ms Ley and Energy Minister Angus Taylor will be at the plant site outside Kurri Kurri on Monday to announce the approval.

ABC News

Angus Taylor says the carbon tax destroyed one in eight manufacturing jobs. Is he correct?

Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor says Labor's carbon tax was responsible for destroying one in eight manufacturing jobs. RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

The Guardian - AU

Labor pledges up to $700m in extra funding for Snowy Hydro power plant to make it run on green hydrogen

Anthony Albanese says plan takes Coalition’s ‘flawed approach’ and makes it work but Angus Taylor calls it ‘economically incoherent’

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AdBlue shortage appears to be nearing end as millions of litres of diesel fluid produced locally

A national shortage of the crucial diesel exhaust fluid, which threatened to grind the transport sector to a halt, appears to be coming to an end.

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