Australia’s largest Carbon Capture and Storage project has failed on all fronts. Is CCS simply a fraud, a sneaky way for the Coalition to subsidise its large fossil fuel donors with public money? Callum Foote reports on the Gorgon failure, the global failure of CCS and the latest government hand-outs for a technology which is not commercial.
Source: Carbon Capture’s Epic Fail: giant Gorgon gas plant goes ‘phut’ – Michael West
The proposed Adani coal mine has been granted unlimited access to groundwater in a move farmers fear will allow it to drain huge amounts of water from the Great Artesian Basin.
Source: ‘Barbaric’: Adani’s giant coal mine granted unlimited water licence for 60 years
Michael West exposes the sheer WTFness of the Federal Government stumping up Adani’s dud coal mine with a $1 billion taxpayer subsidy.
Source: Seven reasons why lavishing a $1 billion subsidy on Adani is a truly inane idea
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