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IEEFA: ‘Carbon capture’ model at Exxon’s Shute Creek CCUS reveals questionable technology and uncertain economic viability

Delving into the world’s largest carbon capture project, ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek CCUS facility, reveals a highly questionable technology. — Read on ieefa.org/ieefa-the-carbon-capture-model-at-exxons-shute-creek-ccus-reveals-a-questionable-technology-and-uncertain-economic-viability/ “CCS projects also face technical difficulties and their economic viability is uncertain, as evidenced by the failed Chevron Gorgon … Continue reading

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Tory MPs call the green transition ‘unaffordable’. Europe is proving that’s a lie

superbonus scheme pays for everything: insulation, ventilation, new windows and doors, solar panels, heat pumps. — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/23/european-countries-climate-crisis-deniers-green-schemes Italy- 110% superbonus scheme pays for everything: insulation, ventilation, new windows and doors, solar panels, heat pumps.

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Michael McCormack’s movie nights cost taxpayers $2,500 a ticket

“It would’ve taken me, seriously, 10 minutes … — Read on http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/24/michael-mccormacks-movie-nights-cost-taxpayers-2500-a-ticket-and-his-scene-was-cut again, the better money managers, better than what?

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Coal aid to Ukraine from Australia also weapons and humanitarian

Ukraine-Russia war: Australia to send weapons, humanitarian aid and coal to Ukraine — Read on http://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australia-to-send-weapons-humanitarian-aid-and-70-000-tonnes-of-coal-to-ukraine-20220319-p5a636.html Coal as wartime aid, whatever next? If you check, you find, high in list of exports from Ukraine is coal. No deterrent @ScottyFromMktg, generous … Continue reading

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Subsidise cars before coal

Below is wonderful story by Saul Griffith, even unlocked in The Australian,righting so many wrongs, in usual msm, especially boondoggle that electric vehicles will overload the grid and power stations, yet again, the never ending panic scenario. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fspecial-reports%2Fsubsidise-cars-before-coal%2Fnews-story%2F420774f2f43115dc7b4d2ae5fba16b96&h=AT3KZIlEBZ6vRuMS2dnivqq22gmuBlOpx0_eAESDvXJNo9m81AMYv_AAq-ww8l1mfQEA3TYW_43kJJRWRRMwb9MQX6muEeVlizpogmNoEBujWhCRl92KQoQSWr84T9s&s=1

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Urannah Dam is RORT … for mining not agriculture

Urannah Dam is for mining not agriculture – Mackay Conservation Group — Read on http://www.mackayconservationgroup.org.au/urannah_mining

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“Clearly Unacceptable”: Environment Minister Sussan Ley bans renewable project, blesses three new coal mines –

Sussan Ley rendered the Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) project “clearly unacceptable” while approving three new coal mines — Read on http://www.michaelwest.com.au/clearly-unacceptable-environment-minister-sussan-ley-bans-renewable-project-blesses-three-new-coal-mines/ its the big renewable hydrogen project in W.A. which is canned!

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Former Navy secretary: Addiction to fossil fuels empowers Putin

thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/596336-former-navy-secretary-the-addiction-to-fossil-fuels-empowers-putin and makes slaves of the rest of us, switch to renewables ASAP so we can’t be held to ransom again and again

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Snowy 2.0 rapidly turning into “$10 billion white elephant,” experts say

Open letter to the PM warns that Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro project will blow out to roughly double original cost estimates to around $10 billion. — Read on reneweconomy.com.au/snowy-2-0-rapidly-turning-into-10-billion-white-elephant-experts-say-91248/

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Don’t hand power to dangerous people (even when they really want it) — a modest Buddhist proposal

Roger Waters, frontman for Pink Floyd, once proposed “The Fletcher Memorial Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings”, where “wasters of life and limb” could be taken away. — Read on http://www.abc.net.au/religion/jonathan-gold-buddhist-proposal-for-keeping-sociopaths-from-pow/13787074

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