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More coal and gas, less renewables: what a nuclear power plan for Australia would really mean

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear power in Australia has provoked a great deal of discussion and analysis – most of it critical.

The Conversation

The bitter final showdown over British coal, as sun sets on ‘dirtiest fuel’

The county of Cumbria in northern England is the battleground for a war raging over plans to build a new coal mine.

Al Jazeera

The Coalition’s nuclear costings and their rubbery assumptions take us back to being a climate pariah

Despite a clever comms strategy, there are significant credibility issues around the assumptions on which the cost estimates are based

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PM rubbishes Dutton's nuclear energy plan as 'farcical'

Anthony Albanese has poured scorn on Peter Dutton's "farcical" nuclear plan and questioned the Liberal leader's claim it would lead to cheaper energy.

AAP

Never mind that the Coalition’s nuclear proposal is a fantasy – it doesn’t even claim to reduce power bills

Experts and agencies have overwhelmingly deemed the plan not to be credible. And burning more coal and gas in the medium term only leads one way

The Guardian - AU

The Coalition reveals the cost of its nuclear power plan – but the devil is in the missing detail

The Coalition has released long-awaited detail on its nuclear energy policy, claiming its plan to build seven nuclear power stations would be A$263 billion cheaper than Labor’s renewables-only approach.

The Conversation

Afternoon Update: Coalition reveals nuclear costings; Qantas engineers strike; and getting home safely this silly season

Modelling suggests opposition’s nuclear plan would cost $331bn over 25 years, with Dutton claiming it is 44% cheaper than Labor’s renewables transition

The Guardian - AU

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The glaring gaps and unanswered questions in the Coalition’s nuclear plan and costings

Peter Dutton’s vision doesn’t address the climate crisis anytime soon and cost savings are based on a comparison with Labor’s proposal that produces 45% more electricity

The Guardian - AU

Coalition unveils nuclear energy policy with renewables

Renewable energy will still make up the majority of Australia's energy grid by 2050 but be firmed up by nuclear power under a controversial coalition plan.

AAP

Peter Dutton says nuclear ‘will make electricity cheaper’ but critics say Coalition costings a ‘fantasy’

Opposition leader spruiks Frontier Economics modelling but Labor insists ‘it won’t pass the pub test’

The Guardian - AU

Sam Groth quits John Pesutto’s shadow frontbench – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

Multi-billion dollar price tag revealed to go nuclear

The federal opposition would make taxpayers fork out the combined equivalent of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's wealth to set up nuclear reactors.

AAP

Grattan on Friday: Dutton’s nuclear policy would have coal-fired power stations operating for a lot longer

A Dutton government would keep coal working hard for much longer under its nuclear policy, while renewables would provide only a little over half the electricity generated in 2050.

The Conversation

‘Not a hope in hell’ nuclear power can replace Australian coal-fired power by 2040, inquiry hears

Energy industry group calls for policy push on faster renewables rollout as ACTU energy adviser says Coalition’s proposal won’t create ‘a single job’

The Guardian - AU

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‘Someone has to stay’: how Ukrainian power plant workers keep the country running

The Guardian visits a Soviet-era coal-fired thermal installation to explore how it has held up to Russian attacks

International Business Times

Indonesia's New Coal Phase-out Goal Sets 'Daunting Task'

Meeting Indonesia's pledge to phase out coal power in just 15 years and reach net-zero emissions by mid-century is a "daunting task" that will require immediate and ambitious action, experts warn.

The Independent UK

Renewable power set to overtake fossil fuels in the UK this year for the first time

The shift is driven largely by a decline in production from coal, gas and oil, as well as growing wind, solar and biomass power

The Conversation

South Africa’s climate battle: mining district exposes gaps in emissions control

In South Africa, the new 2024 Climate Change Act requires local governments to plan responses to global warming. These local authorities should find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where possible, such as from their bus services, and reduce their use of electricity that is produced by burning coal. They…

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The Guardian - UK

New authority proposed to oversee safety of coal tips in Wales

Planned legislation includes body that would monitor abandoned tips in effort to prevent disasters

The Guardian - AU

The CSIRO pours cold water on the Coalition’s nuclear claims in a new report. Here’s how

Peter Dutton dismisses the latest analysis from the national science agency. Here’s what it says about energy costs – and the opposition’s criticism

The Guardian - AU

CSIRO refutes Coalition case nuclear is cheaper than renewable energy due to operating life

National science agency dismisses argument nuclear’s economics have not been adequately considered in new draft report

The Independent UK

Coroner says searchers think they have found missing Pennsylvania woman last seen near sinkhole

A Pennsylvania coroner’s office says investigators believe they have located the body of a woman who was last seen four days earlier near a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine

The Independent UK

Digging resumes in the search for a woman in a Pennsylvania sinkhole

Digging crews are resuming work in the effort to locate a woman who authorities fear died after falling into a sinkhole above an abandoned Pennsylvania coal mine

The Guardian - UK

‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects

New liquefied natural gas projects could produce 10 gigatonnes of emissions by the end of the decade, close to the annual emissions of all coal plants

The Conversation

Trusted partner to the Pacific, or giant fossil fuel exporter? This week, Australia chose the latter

Australia has long tried to be two things at once – a trusted friend to Pacific nations in a bid to reduce China’s influence, and a giant exporter of fossil fuels. This diplomatic tightrope has become increasingly hard to walk, as Pacific nations see climate change as an existential threat.

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