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Normal text size Very large text size Bell Bay, at the mouth of the Tamar River, once housed Tasmania’s only oil-fired power station. It was built in the 1960s and, when it was decommissioned in 2009, a new plant began operating directly next door – Tamar Valley Power Station – which runs on gas instead. Today, as the world edges further away from coal, oil and gas, Bell Bay’s sprawling industrial precinct has become the unlikely setting for a new phase of the energy transition, one that is increasingly gaining promise as a missing piece in the push to slow global warming:...

Normal text size Very large text size Powering up his local government’s car fleet with electric vehicles is one way for Canterbury Bankstown mayor Khal Asfour to deliver on his council’s climate commitments – but it’s saving some serious cash, too. “The majority of our electric fleet consists of the Hyundai IONIQ, with each of these vehicles saving council in excess of $11,000 a year in maintenance and fuel costs,” says Cr Asfour. He’s starting small – with 46 electric or hybrid vehicles – but aiming big, with a 2025 goal to make all 345 of the co...

Normal text size Very large text size The news from Barrow Island was not good. Sand had clogged a well sunk as part of Chevron’s project to bury emissions from its Gorgon gas project off the north coast of Western Australia. This was not a little problem. It is hard to exaggerate the significance of Chevron’s project to proponents of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Chevron is Australia’s sixth-largest greenhouse gas emitter and its Gorgon project is WA’s second-highest emitting project, estimated to put out almost 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year at full production.

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