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...
Bill Bovingdon
@williambovingdon.substack.com
Sustainable Finance, Green Bonds Co-Founder Altius, Director Australian Ethical, Adjunct Fellow UNSW Business School Also, Arsenal, St Kilda FC, guitar and fly fishing
DEI lives on!
Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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.
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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.
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Devil in the details belindanoble.substack.com/p/the-great-...
“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.
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.
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.
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
Romania's newest wind farm may add solar, storage, as country faces energy crunch reut.rs/4j1YDjx
🔥 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!
A lesser wanderer (Danaus petilia) butterfly at Picnic Dam at Gluepot Reserve.
Autumn in New England.
Wrote this piece - the benefits of recapturing vapours is a low hanging fruit for urban air quality and health wins...
This climate impact tool is both brilliant and mind boggling.
Arrested for not driving EVs
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.”
talent and class
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
