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Blowout Week 199<\/a><\/h3>\n
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\"\"Australia has rejected the Clean Energy Target proposed by Chief Scientist Alan Finkel in favor of an \u201caffordable, reliable\u201d plan, but has adopted Finkel\u2019s recommendation that energy companies \u201cmust deliver a certain level of dispatchable power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries\u201d. We follow with the Kurdistan conflict; the Saudi Aramco IPO; oil majors move into gas; nuclear in South Korea and Switzerland; greenhouse gases in India and Canada; coal in the US and the Netherlands; New Zealand commits to zero carbon; the UK and Euratom; the world\u2019s first floating offshore wind farm; MIT hits the battery storage sweet spot and how climate change made the Chicago River flow uphill.<\/p>\n

Financial Times: Australia to abandon clean energy target<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Australia plans to ditch its clean energy target aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions in favour of coal power generation, in a scheme that echoes US President Donald Trump\u2019s energy policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Under a proposal announced on Tuesday, energy companies in Australia must deliver a certain level of dispatchable power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries. Canberra would also phase out subsidies for renewable energy from 2020. \u201cPast energy plans have subsidised some industries, punished others and slugged consumers,\u201d said Malcolm Turnbull, prime minister. \u201cOur plan has no subsidies, no certificates and no tax\u201d. Australia\u2019s policy shift follows months of internal wrangling within the ruling coalition over a proposal for a clean energy target made by the country\u2019s chief scientist. But under pressure from climate sceptic conservatives in his party, including arch-rival and former prime minister Tony Abbott, Mr Turnbull rejected the clean energy target \u2014 a move that is likely to spark a renewed ideological battle with the opposition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Blowout Week 199 Australia has rejected the Clean Energy Target proposed by Chief Scientist Alan Finkel in favor of an \u201caffordable, reliable\u201d plan, but has adopted Finkel\u2019s recommendation that energy companies \u201cmust deliver a certain level of dispatchable power from ready-to-use sources such as coal, gas, hydro or batteries\u201d. We follow with the Kurdistan conflict; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[41,16609,11260,11990],"class_list":["post-27080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-australia","tag-clean-energy-target","tag-energy-matters","tag-roger-andrews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27081,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27080\/revisions\/27081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}