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Labor’s gas strategy a ‘necessary component’ of net-zero by 2050: PM
Anthony Albanese says the government’s Future Gas Strategy, which locks in its use beyond 2050, is a ‘necessary component’ to achieving net-zero emissions. Follow updates live.
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- Gus McCubbing
Yesterday
Origin reaps $420m Octopus gain as Aware Super climbs on board
The UK energy disruptor has upped its valuation by 15pc, in a transaction that brought in Aware and raised the value of Origin’s stake beyond $2 billion.
- Hans van Leeuwen
This Month
- Opinion
- Opinion
Keeping coal but excluding gas is an irrational path to net zero
Including gas-generation in the back-up electricity mechanism will help avoid taxpayer funds being used for paradoxical cross-purposes.
- Steve Davies
‘True energy impact’: Di Pilla defies gloom, appoints Gillard to $2b fund
The ASX-listed HMC Capital is banking on plenty of investor interest to defy a gloomy market outlook on the transition to clean energy for its latest vehicle.
- Ben Potter
- Analysis
- Australian economy
‘Made in Australia’ risks higher interest rates and a poorer future
The old rules of economics still apply and the consequences of Albanese’s big gamble could be widely felt.
- John Kehoe
Nuclear power: Could we? Should we?
This week on The Fin podcast: Ben Potter and Jacob Greber on Dutton’s atomic bet, the economics of nuclear energy and whether the AI revolution changes the debate.
Why AGL’s staff are happier after a major plant closure
AGL will use the Liddell decommissioning as a blueprint for plant shutdowns, after it managed to move 100 per cent of workers into new roles.
- Agnes King
April
- Opinion
- Opinion
Woodside and the new climate activists
Energy companies work in a twilight industry where demand still endures. They don’t know the answers to the questions investor activists are asking.
- Matthew Warren
- Opinion
- Opinion
Post-coal power choice is renationalisation or redesigning the market
An integrated net-zero electricity system depends on governments restoring faith in the market delivering enough power to the right places at the right time.
- Tony Wood
Woodside looks inward after climate gambit defeated
The oil and gas producer felt the force of big super and green investors when it took a transition plan to shareholders. Now it has no choice but to do better on emissions.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Updated
- Mining
BHP lobs $60b copper play for Anglo American
BHP is making a $60 billion bet on copper demand growing exponentially in the global shift away from fossil fuels, with a bold takeover bid for British resources heavyweight Anglo American.
- Updated
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- Climate policy
Voting down Woodside’s climate plan a shareholder activism milestone
This is a pivotal moment for other climate-science-denying board directors, a signal to act on their fiduciary duties, or suffer the consequences personally.
- Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson
Electric vehicle sales set to surge, IEA predicts
EV numbers will be strong this year and Chinese carmakers will increase their dominance, the International Energy Agency predicts.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Green fuels are not the future – they’re just about here
Porsche-backed HIF Global wants to build a plant in Tasmania. Others are eyeing Townsville. But they need the government to push customers their way.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
British shareholder LGIM piles more climate pressure on Woodside
The $2.3 trillion asset manager will vote against not only the gas giant’s climate plan but also against chairman Richard Goyder’s re-election.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Aviation
Sustainable aviation fuel has been a talkfest for far too long
For a government that has flagged its commitment, there is surprisingly little policy. Australia still produces no SAF – and has no fully funded projects.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Blackstone move signals end of Aussie bid for UK gigafactory
The US private equity giant’s reported move on the site of a failed battery maker looks like curtains for entrepreneur David Collard’s $16 million takeover.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Analysis
- Carbon challenge
Woodside treads impossibly fine line on climate demands
Whether new oil and gas projects can align with the Paris Agreement is central to the oil and gas producer’s stoush with activists and some proxy advisers.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Energy
HESTA sides with Woodside on Goyder’s future
But the outspoken superannuation fund, which has criticised the company for not doing enough on emissions reduction, will vote against its climate strategy.
- Kylar Loussikian
Green scheme rules hang in balance as 6GW deadline nears
The details of the Capacity Investment Scheme are still being debated just weeks before the first auction for six gigawatts of wind and solar capacity.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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