All posts by Samantha Hepburn
Opening 10 new oil and gas sites is a win for fossil fuel companies – but a staggering loss for the rest of Australia
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King yesterday handed Australia’s fossil fuel industry two significant wins. The minister announced oil and gas exploration will be allowed at ten new Australian ocean sites – comprising almost 47,000 square kilometres. And she…
No, Mr Morrison – the safeguard mechanism is not a ‘sneaky carbon tax’
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week claimed Labor was planning a “sneaky carbon tax” should it win power, and Nationals senator Matt Canavan declared the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 was “dead”. We can expect both these…
1 in 5 fossil fuel projects overshoot their original estimations for emissions. Why are there such significant errors?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. When estimating the amount of greenhouse gases a project – such as a new mine or power station – would release, it’s important to be as accurate as possible. This is not only because of the impact an…