Archived News for Green Sector Professionals
The renewable energy sector has taken another hard hit, this time in the form of thinly-veiled condemnation by Australia’s prime minister.
Stations fall in SA coal collapse
Alinta Energy says its coal-fired power stations at Port Augusta in South Australia will close in early 2018, or possibly sooner.
Victoria welcomes winds of change
The Victorian Government has made it easier to set up new wind farms.
Greenhouse grown for political points
Market research says successive Australian governments have overstated greenhouse gas forecasts, in order to make it look like they are doing more to reduce emissions.
Human rights repressed in partisan pressing
In the war between Attorney-General George Brandis, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton and Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs, it is difficult to know who should explain themselves.
Aqua-business caught out in QLD's "secret" deal
Environmentalists say the Queensland Government provided “special treatment” for a controversial $2 billion irrigation project in the state's far north.
Bone stress dates world's oldest walker
A new study says the first backboned animals to step out of water and walk on dry land were from Australia.
Future flight through real bird's eyes
With each new engineering project it appears more likely the high-tech future will be based on Nature’s designs.
Rat scaffold in bold step for body parts
Researchers have grown a complete, live, functioning limb in the lab.
ARENA fund for green bank and mobile tests
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has given a $1.4 million grant to the University of Adelaide, for it to develop an online Australian energy storage knowledge bank and mobile energy storage test facility.
G7 plot path to greener Earth
The Group of Seven world leaders’ conference in Germany has finished with a pledge to ‘decarbonise’ the global economy.
Gas review seeks powerful input
The competition regulator has released an issues paper for the East Coast Gas Inquiry.
Musk issues mild warning to adapt or fail
Elon Musk says electric utilities should buy his battery systems or be put out of business by them.
Research takes trees to cutting-edge
Australian researchers are working on a way to use macadamia nuts as a 3D-printing medium.
Bayer brought in for local farm help
Australia’s Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC) has signed a deal with global chemical giant Bayer to bring new herbicides and pesticides to local farms.
China's green view brings new market for locals
Since China’s President Xi Jinping passed a revised Environmental Protection Act earlier this year, the government has worked quickly to clean up its act, along with the nation’s notoriously polluted air and water.
Green groups warn of swamp-sucking miners
Environmentalists say new NSW planning laws could allow mining companies to pay to damage sensitive swamps that supply Sydney's drinking water.
Huge oil fund kicks out coal
The world's biggest pension fund is looking to sell it stake in companies that invest in the coal industry.
Hunt backs coal against environmentalists
The Federal Environment Minister has defended the coal industry against what it says are attacks by environmentalists.
Old gold stepping into new era
In an Australian first, a disused gold mine in Queensland will be turned into a huge hydro-electric energy system.
Nautilus plugs its own sea digs
A new report suggests that subsea copper mining is more sustainable than doing it on land.