Labor in Victoria has opened 5 new fossil fuel projects in the last year, even drilling near the iconic 12 Apostles. The Liberals and One Nation are no better: they want even more coal, gas and logging.
Energy - One Nation Victoria
Victoria sits on coal, gas and uranium. Scrapping net-zero targets, putting Victorian gas first, ending the nuclear ban, and getting power bills back down.
More and More and More
It has become habitual to think of our relationship with energy as one of transition: with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear and then at some future point all replaced by green sources. Jean-Baptiste Fressoz’s devastating but unnervingly entertaining book shows what an extraordinary delusion this is. Far from the industrial era passing through a series of transformations, each new phase has in practice remained almost wholly entangled with the previous one. Indeed the very idea of transition turns out to be untrue. The author shares the same acute anxiety about the need for a green transition as the rest of us, but shows how, disastrously, our industrial history has in fact been based on symbiosis, with each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples, Fressoz describes how we have gorged on all forms of energy – with whole forests needed to prop up coal mines, coal remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products and oil still central to our lives. The world now burns more wood and coal than ever before. This book reveals an uncomfortable truth: ‘transition’ was originally itself promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a means to put off any meaningful change. More and More and More forces its readers to understand the modern world in all its voracious reality, and the true nature of the challenges heading our way.
One Nation commits to coal-fired power and lifting nuclear ban in Victoria
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and state leader Warren Pickering travelled to the Latrobe Valley to announce the party's Victorian energy policy.
Backing Victorian Gas To Keep Prices Low
“We know gas supplies are declining. That's why we're securing the gas we have and backing new projects to bring down bills.”
Make power affordable and sustainable – Victorian Socialists
Energy is essential infrastructure. We’re fighting for a public takeover to immediately cap electricity and gas bills, and transition to renewables sources.
Addressing climate change and protecting our environment – Victorian Socialists
The climate crisis is driven by the profit motive. We need a shift to 100 percent publicly owned renewable energy and an end to old-growth logging.
Jess Wilson vows to scrap VNI West Powerline and turn to gas in major Victorian energy election reset - The Australia Today
“Victoria doesn’t need more unnecessary poles and wires that bulldoze through regional communities"
A Reality Check on Our ‘Energy Transition’ | The Tyee
To our peril, there’s been no green revolution. Just green addition to rising fossil fuel use.
Hanson pushes more coal, fewer renewables without detailing cost
One Nation vows to remove renewable energy zones and scrap compulsory land acquisition for VNI West at a regional Victorian rally.
Self-Burn
Thanks to Trump, people around the world are scrambling to get out of fossil fuels.
Victorian Labor
A re-elected Carroll Labor Government will introduce a 2-kilometre buffer between new waste-to-energy project boundaries and existing homes.
Planned burns doubled and salvaged wood for sawmills under Coalition forest policy
The Coalition is promising to revive Victoria's native timber industry through the collection and processing of fuel load as part of a new state election pledge.
One Nation will keep ageing coal plants running in Gippsland – despite industry warnings on reliability
With an increasing amount of unplanned outages and high maintenance costs, how much will the taxpayer cough up to keep the stations humming?
The Death of the Carbon Coalition
Existing models of U.S. politics are wrong. Here’s how the system really works.
Will Canada’s gas tax holiday drive up emissions and help the rich? | The Narwhal
The Carney government is keeping its tax off at gas pumps to help with the cost of living, but critics call it a subsidy for the oil and gas industry that won’t help those who need it most
Energy Policy | The Australian Greens
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