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Bill Bovingdon

@williambovingdon.substack.com

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Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds Co-Founder Altius, Director Australian Ethical, Adjunct Fellow UNSW Business School Also, Arsenal, St Kilda FC, guitar and fly fishing

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@williambovingdon.substack.comOct 8, 2026, 9:05 AM

Hard to Imagine that an environmental assessment can Ignore “downstream" or scope 3 emissions, which would cause harm - to the Hunter! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

@williambovingdon.substack.comOct 7, 2026, 3:39 AM

DEI lives on!
Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

@ebonybennett.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:46 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

Incredible outcome so soon after NSW approved the massive Hunter Valley Operations coal mine expansion.

Congrats and thank you to the community group that fought this, hopefully this helps kickstart Australia's fossil fuel phaseout.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@michaelmazengarb.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 2:47 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

You'll see fossil fuel groups label this environmental lawfare, but this decision is just the High Court stating what the planning laws require.

Pure statutory interpretation, and the way those laws are written, there's no free pass for exported emissions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@williambovingdon.substack.comOct 6, 2026, 2:51 AM

Devil in the details belindanoble.substack.com/p/the-great-...

@justinmikulka.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

“We will no longer be consumers of imported energy. We will be solar power producers,” he told parliament earlier this month. Guess which country? Not an easy guess since so many will choose this path.

@jaapburger.euOct 3, 2026, 8:41 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

The diesel car is not only harmful to our lungs, but is now also considered toxic to its owner. Dutch motorists looking to sell their diesel cars are finding it difficult; the second-hand car market for diesels has collapsed, and even exports of second-hand diesel cars are falling.

@ghostpanther.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 5:38 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about.

It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds.

#ClimateCrisis

@grogsgamut.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 1:58 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

The ICHTHYS project in the NT, two thirds owned by Japanese company INPEX (incl part owned by the Japanese govt). $52bn in income. $0 in company tax $0 in PRRT But apparently if we do a 25% export tax they might get upset so we can't do it because it is vital for our economy

Year	Total income $	Tax payable $	PRRT
2018-19	$802,110,813	$0	$0
2019-20	$6,378,812,227	$0	$0
2020-21	$6,106,449,154	$0	$0
2021-22	$7,281,757,071	$0	$0
2022-23	$11,973,514,434	$0	$0
2023-24	$10,661,856,034	$0	$0
2024-25	$172,738,325	$0	$0
@reuters.comOct 2, 2026, 11:35 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

Romania's newest wind farm may add solar, storage, as country faces energy crunch reut.rs/4j1YDjx

@risingtideaus.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:28 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

🔥 Our message has hit mainstream - the story of our epic Brisbane occupation where six Rising Tiders' were arrested for their valiant attempt to clean up ANZ's shit climate policy! We ain't stopping ANZ - just clean it up already!

@sandyhorne.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 12:01 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

A lesser wanderer (Danaus petilia) butterfly at Picnic Dam at Gluepot Reserve.

@mattbh.comOct 1, 2026, 11:07 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

IS THE IRREFUTABLE EVIDENCE
IN THE ROOM WITH US RIGHT NOW?
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@bringafoldingchair.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 4:47 PMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

Autumn in New England.

@robynschofield3.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 3:52 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

Wrote this piece - the benefits of recapturing vapours is a low hanging fruit for urban air quality and health wins...

energy.unimelb.edu.au/about-us/new...

@louisemorris.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 4:53 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

This climate impact tool is both brilliant and mind boggling.

@williambovingdon.substack.comSep 30, 2026, 12:33 AM

Arrested for not driving EVs

@readfearn.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 12:08 AMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

News from me: Antarctica’s winter sea ice has peaked at its third-lowest level on record, falling a million square kilometres – or almost 400,000 square miles – short of the long-term average, scientists have confirmed. "This is not a future problem. It’s a now problem.”

@williambovingdon.substack.comSep 30, 2026, 12:28 AM

talent and class

@ketanjoshi.coSep 27, 2026, 5:58 PMReposted by @williambovingdon.substack.com

A Crusoe (fossil fuel company powering data centres) claimed no protesters at NY climate wk live near a data centre - but as @mollytaft.com points out, why is that relevant when climate impacts *everyone* *everywhere*? We *all* live near data centres, in that regard

www.wired.com/story/data-c...

A day before the panel, at a different briefing, I watched BloombergNEF analysts talk about the group’s projections of a massive new influx of demand for fossil fuel power over the coming years, driven primarily by data centers. Data centers, according to BNEF’s analysis, will likely comprise more than 5 percent of global electricity demand by 2035, tripling their needs now. The majority of that demand will be met by new and existing natural gas plants, and could raise the power sector’s emissions by 6 percent in less than 10 years.
That doesn’t even account for gas power plants being built off the grid to service data centers. A separate BNEF analysis of 99 proposed on-site gas power plants found that they could increase US power sector emissions by 20 to 33 percent if they’re all built, posing a major climate threat. Declines in emissions from coal plant retirements will be more than offset by new gas emissions, and more coal plants are staying online thanks to the new demand.
Even if data centers pull off the PR turnaround of the century and ease concerns about water use and energy bills, the fossil fuel buildout still looms as one of the biggest consequences of their buildout. Extinction Rebellion may, at the end of the day, be right: all those added emissions mean that even those of us who aren’t living near data centers will end up feeling their impacts.
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