ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Adelaide-based oil and gas company Whitebark Energy Ltd (Whitebark) has announced that the Company’s application for an Exploration for Geothermal Energy (EPG) permit has been accepted for an area consisting of 190 sub-blocks in the Greater Brisbane and Gold Coast Region in South-East Queensland, Australia.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 30, 2023

gigawatts of new generation and storage capacity added to the national electricity market compared with last summer. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

MARCH 10, 2024

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 3, 2024

The two firms have geothermal assets in Queensland and South Australia. Within Energy has acquired a total of six Geothermal Exploration Permits across Queensland in Australia as of a September 2022 update. Following the acquisition, Matt Kay has been appointed as the Managing Director of Cradle Resources.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Emergency services were called at Bouldercombe, south of Rockhampton, about 7.45pm on Tuesday. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

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The Guardian: Energy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At least 1,500 destination chargers are expected to be established in tourist hotspots to boost charging infrastructure in regional towns.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

New South Wales is next up, with a decision on its pricing due before next June, with those for the ACT and South Australia to follow a year later. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 2, 2024

Whitebark Energy Limited (Whitebark) has been awarded a new Geothermal Exploration Permit (GEP) consisting of 1250 sub-blocks within the Cooper Basin in Australia. The EPG2049 permit area is located approximately 100 kilometers west of Windorah in South-West Queensland.

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The Guardian: Energy

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The comments, contained in a draft report on Aemo’s main blueprint for the national electricity market, come a day after New South Wales faced its first grid strains of the summer. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Silica sand company VRX Silica has entered into a Farm-in and Joint Venture Agreement with Hydro X for a Geothermal Exploration Permit at the Dandaragan site in Western Australia. The project provide s an alternative energy solutions of the silica sand assets of VRX Silica and its long-term ambitions of glass production in Western Australia.

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The Guardian: Energy

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Origin should expect this government to engage with them in a pretty tough manner.”

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Charged

JULY 15, 2021

Australia is one of the least charged of the world’s wealthy countries. During the 2019 elections, Prime Minister Scott Morrison characterized EVs as a threat to Australians’ way of life, and that seems to have set the tone for Australia’s EV policy, or lack thereof, ever since. That’s the bad news.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 18, 2024

Earths Energy (ASX: EE1) and Baker Hughes have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on assessing the application of Advanced Geothermal Systems (AGS) technology on EE1’s geothermal exploration portfolio in Australia. To this end, a Joint Steering Committee will perform the work over the next two years.

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The Guardian: Energy

AUGUST 24, 2023

Eight out of 10 councillors voted on Monday night to investigate how to change the council’s local planning rules to ban new gas connections. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

Despite a strong track record on renewables innovation, Australia may be running out of time to become a clean energy export powerhouse — and further funding for homegrown innovation is now in jeopardy. Australia’s ruling Liberal Party has tried to do away with ARENA in the recent past. billion (USD $1.08

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 14, 2024

Whitebark Energy Ltd (Whitebark) and CeraPhi Energy (CeraPhi) have signed a Heads of Terms to collaborate on the development of Whitebark’s recently acquired geothermal assets in South-East Queensland, Australia. Initial indications from offset well data indicate an elevated geothermal gradient in the area.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

A nuanced appraisal emerges from the 2022 World Air Quality report – compiled by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir – which includes a dismal picture from Africa and the news that only five countries met the WHO limits for PM2.5: Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, and New Zealand.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Over the years, our data has also provided critical insights for managing and mitigating bushfires in Australia. Our partner NGIS is helping the government of New South Wales (NSW) prepare for this high-risk season with Planet satellite data.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2023

Hurricane Ian in Florida, record breaking losses from hailstorms in France, floods in Australia and South Africa, winter storms in Europe and the US, and droughts in Europe, China, and the Americas were all cited as major contributors to the increased losses. Global losses triggered by floods last year were also above average.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

“This is an ion-exchange process that is used to extract low concentration of lithium out of the brine, which is coming out of the Leduc formation,” E3 Lithium VP of Resource Development Peter Ratzlaff told Global News. We don’t [need to] rely on places like South America, Australia or China for these materials.”.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 7, 2022

Midcoast Council, a local government area in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, launched the venture, which has seen dozens of large water users save up to AUS$50,000 ($33,869) on water bills.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2020

South Korea will set its sights on becoming a carbon neutral country by 2050, President Moon Jae-in announced today, making it the latest major economy committed to ending its contribution to climate change as crucial momentum towards net zero gathers pace ahead of COP26. has today committed to #NetZero by 2050! COP26 #TacklingClimateChange.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The news that GM, Ford and other automakers plan to slow down production of EVs in response to slower sales growth (EV sales grew by only 50 percent last quarter) was like an early Christmas for the various varieties of EV-haters. Source: E&E News For most of us in the EV industry, it was more like a visit from the Grinch.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Knispel grows citrus in the Riverland region of South Australia , a couple of hours northeast of Adelaide. The tree theft is a new one to Mark Doecke, chair of Citrus SA , which represents South Australian citrus growers. Via ABC News Australia , The Guardian. Related: Trees face extinction, too. .

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Australia's Qantas Group has become the latest airline to set new emissions goals, unveiling an interim target to reduce carbon emissions by 25 per cent by 2030, as it provided more information on its roadmap to deliver on its previous pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The summit’s official “blue zone” includes large corporate-style pavilions run by some of the world’s leading producers of oil, gas, and coal, including the United States, Australia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Russia, United Arab Emirates, Germany, and Qatar. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. Partial Exceptions.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In Japan, a new green hydrogen plant, one of the world’s largest, just opened near Fukishima — an intentionally symbolic location given the plant’s proximity to the site of the 2011 nuclear disaster. All these developments, said Blank of the Rocky Mountain Institute, are "really good news. Pull Quote.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When the report came out in 2018, it made a splash, with news headlines warning that the world had “ 12 years ” left to tackle climate change. Scientists say that it’s certainly bad news, but it’s not game over. “It’s Activists, including Greta Thunberg, rallied around the goal as a point of no return.

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Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Catch the top green business news from around the world this week. Australia's government today confirmed it would challenge a court ruling that concluded the country's Environment Minister had an obligation to the next generation to consider the harm caused by climate change when approving the expansion of a new coal mine.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Plus Poland and South Korea coal-phase outs, Siemens Gamesa hydrogen project, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. It said the new energy facilities would create 300,000 jobs, adding that Poland's coal power reliance would fall to an 11-28 per cent share of country's electricity mix by 2040.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fall out from Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei hits international climate talks, Australia's climate bill advances, and all the biggest green business stories from around the world. This so-called party of private enterprise has today thumbed its nose at the business community of Australia who are crying out for certainty going forward.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Rising flooding costs on both sides of the Atlantic, Italian wind energy auctions, and the rest of the green business news from around the world this week. Study details how US flooding costs set to rise by more than a quarter by 2050. European Environment Agency reveals weather extremes cost continent €500bn over 40 years.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Nicola Hunt, head of Land Management at Borders Forest Trust, said: "We are delighted to be working with AstraZeneca UK on an exciting new phase of our native woodland restoration in the south of Scotland. Tree planting projects supported by the company are already underway in Australia, Indonesia and France.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

BBC News reported last month that Saudi Arabia, Japan, and Australia were among a group of countries that are seeking to water down a key scientific report to be published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But the public commitment to oil production is reinforced by behind the scenes lobbying.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world. Oil giant BP has this week inked a non-binding agreement with Australia-based gas specialist Santos that could see the two companies work togeyther on the development of the proposed Moomba carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in South Australia.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

It argued that joining the Trans-Pacific partnership would cut tariffs on exports for UK industries including food, drink, cars, and clean tech, providing major new opportunities for UK firms. The other members of the CPTPP are Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, and Vietnam.

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