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Good lord.
Some buried news about DOT - last night Sec. Sean Duffy released this unhinged memo which directs DOT to prioritize funding for “communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average”, and prohibits DOT funding from going to communities with vaccine requirements. Link below 1/
January 30, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Fantastic Independent candidate for the Federal seat of Bean.
Thrilled to be endorsed by Voices of Bean as a community-backed Independent candidate for Bean 🧡
Unless ordinary, passionate people step up, politics will never change. I’m so thrilled to stand up together with the people of Bean to do politics differently - together as a community. Let’s do this!
Unless ordinary, passionate people step up, politics will never change. I’m so thrilled to stand up together with the people of Bean to do politics differently - together as a community. Let’s do this!
December 1, 2024 at 8:42 AM
Fantastic Independent candidate for the Federal seat of Bean.
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Another year in which not a single climate or energy story won the fossil-industry founded + sponsored Walkley award
By my analysis, last climate story to win was in 2008 (!!) - Around 1530 awards granted over its history
ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/t...
www.walkleys.com/68th-walkley...
By my analysis, last climate story to win was in 2008 (!!) - Around 1530 awards granted over its history
ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/t...
www.walkleys.com/68th-walkley...
68th Walkley Awards winners announced - The Walkley Foundation
Edmund Tadros and Neil Chenoweth have won the Gold Walkley, Australian journalism’s highest honour, for ‘PwC Tax Leaks Scandal’ in The Australian Financial Review. The judges said: “Clearly t...
www.walkleys.com
November 25, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Another year in which not a single climate or energy story won the fossil-industry founded + sponsored Walkley award
By my analysis, last climate story to win was in 2008 (!!) - Around 1530 awards granted over its history
ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/t...
www.walkleys.com/68th-walkley...
By my analysis, last climate story to win was in 2008 (!!) - Around 1530 awards granted over its history
ketanjoshi.co/2023/08/30/t...
www.walkleys.com/68th-walkley...
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So many of us down on the water and on the beach, making sure the channel is occupied and no coal ships can be moved. The photos don’t capture the scale of this, let alone the energy. Wonderful to be part of this #PeoplesBlockade with #RisingTideAus
November 25, 2023 at 5:15 AM
So many of us down on the water and on the beach, making sure the channel is occupied and no coal ships can be moved. The photos don’t capture the scale of this, let alone the energy. Wonderful to be part of this #PeoplesBlockade with #RisingTideAus
Fantastic vibe and showing at the #Risingtide Newcastle coal blockade. A family friendly protestival bringing people together at the biggest coal port in the world saying Australians want a safe environment for all.
November 25, 2023 at 12:30 AM
Fantastic vibe and showing at the #Risingtide Newcastle coal blockade. A family friendly protestival bringing people together at the biggest coal port in the world saying Australians want a safe environment for all.
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Relatively big news for Aus climate policy - new proposal for an auction system to incentivise new clean energy to meet 82% 2030 target. Aus has been badly off track for a few years now.
reneweconomy.com.au/bowen-dumps-...
reneweconomy.com.au/bowen-dumps-...
Bowen dumps RET for 32 GW of auctions in massive policy shift to supercharge renewables
Chris Bowen will let the long-standing renewable energy target die, choosing instead a massive auction program seeking 32GW of new capacity to meet 82 pct renewable target.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 22, 2023 at 12:56 PM
Relatively big news for Aus climate policy - new proposal for an auction system to incentivise new clean energy to meet 82% 2030 target. Aus has been badly off track for a few years now.
reneweconomy.com.au/bowen-dumps-...
reneweconomy.com.au/bowen-dumps-...
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There's more to this story, as I write in my upcoming book. 👀
The oil mogul who established Australia's premier journalism awards has a long history of courting the media - including taking a bunch of them to witness the opening of Australia's first oil well
theconversation.com/the-walkley-...
theconversation.com/the-walkley-...
![A murky history
The first Walkleys were awarded in 1956, but Bill Walkley’s seduction of the media began a few years beforehand. As managing director of Ampol, in 1953 he chartered a plane to take reporters to Rough Range in Western Australia to witness the spudding of Australia’s first oil well.
Staff writers published in The Age:
The prospects for Australia – if the strike proves part of a big field – are limitless. The discovery of oil could mean as much to 20th century Australians as the introduction of Merino sheep meant to our great-grandparents.
Historian and former journalist John Hurst wrote of the trip:
the food was first class, there was plenty of grog […] and Walkley was his usual affable self and always accessible.
Reporters described the land in the language of the settler as “a lonely expanse carpeted with spiky spinifex, salt-bush and stunted scrub”:
Kangaroos, emus, flocks of goats and a few wandering, scraggy sheep are the only audience of man’s activity.
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November 21, 2023 at 8:03 PM
There's more to this story, as I write in my upcoming book. 👀
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PSA for EnergySky newbies: for your post to show up on the EnergySky feed, you must include ‘energysky’ or ‘🔌💡’ in the post.
Please reskeet for visibility as I’m seeing a lot of questions about this floating around!
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November 21, 2023 at 2:52 AM
PSA for EnergySky newbies: for your post to show up on the EnergySky feed, you must include ‘energysky’ or ‘🔌💡’ in the post.
Please reskeet for visibility as I’m seeing a lot of questions about this floating around!
Please reskeet for visibility as I’m seeing a lot of questions about this floating around!
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Lower cost sodium ion batteries are coming for the stationary energy storage market. Should push the cost of grid batteries down, enabling a bit longer durations than Li-ion to be economic (eg in the 6-10 hour range perhaps). 🔌💡 www.rechargenews.com/wind/northvo...
November 21, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Lower cost sodium ion batteries are coming for the stationary energy storage market. Should push the cost of grid batteries down, enabling a bit longer durations than Li-ion to be economic (eg in the 6-10 hour range perhaps). 🔌💡 www.rechargenews.com/wind/northvo...
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A great opinion piece on climate by the wonderful @drkatemarvel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...
November 21, 2023 at 11:50 AM
A great opinion piece on climate by the wonderful @drkatemarvel.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...