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If you want to borrow money from ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group), you better present your carbon offset plan along with your financial records, otherwise regardless of the health of your financials, your application...

Three survivors joined Friends of the Earth to accuse ANZ of misleading consumers by investing in fossil fuel projects

For those addicted to more roads, airports and the sweet smell of gasoline, the IEA's 2010 World Energy Outlook includes some pretty sober reading. As they did in last year's Outlook, the IEA forecasts that OECD demand for...

Renewable energy pioneer Dr Hermann Scheer has passed away on October 14 in Berlin. Scheer was President of the European Association for Renewable Energy (Eurosolar), Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE),...

Lately I have been grappling with a question: I keep hearing that once "non-conventional oil" is accounted for, we have trillions of barrels of oil. Counting coal-seam methane we have gas for centuries. Based on recent claims...

Lately I have been grappling with a question: I keep hearing that once "non-conventional oil" is accounted for, we have trillions of barrels of oil. Counting coal-seam methane we have gas for centuries. Based on recent claims...

Dick Smith is a famous Australian, an entrepreneur, aviator and well regarded 'good guy' who was honoured with the 'Australian of the Year' award in 1986...

This is an updated story that originally ran in January 2008. David Clarke's warnings about the risks of failure in highly connected systems have proved to be prescient in light of recent events - Big Gav. (David Clarke writes...

Update by Gail, Sunday am: BP has been told to keep working on its relief well. On Saturday, Admiral Allen said he wanted additional testing before BP was given orders to proceed with the relief well, and those test would...

A recent interview with Matthew Simmons on Bloomberg discussed the possibility of a nuclear explosion being used to seal the leaking Macondo oil well. This idea was floated a couple of weeks back by the Russian periodical...

This is a guest post from Ralph Faggotter (also known as fingolfin).

This is a guest post from Ralph Faggotter (also known as fingolfin).

The New York Times has an article on Alcoa's interest in making reflective solar troughs for the solar thermal power industry (Aluminium Maker Eyes Solar Industry), leveraging their experience in aircraft wing box design...

Alan Kohler had an interesting column in The Business Spectator recently ("The cars that ate Australia") warning that as our car fleet transitions from the internal combustion to electric vehicles, local car manufacturers...

The US Department of Energy granted a US$1.37 billion loan guarantee to Brightsource Energy last week which could help clear the way for over 15 gigawatts of solar thermal power projects in California. Brightsource built...