06 . 12 . 2025
Forgive us our energy sins: drill down to the details
Recent articles by Simon Holmes a Court and Rod Sims fail to reveal the true costs of renewable power
06 . 12 . 2025
Doubts raised on Treasury green export forecasts
A former Treasury official has raised doubts about the department’s modelling on net-zero targets which claim green exports would exceed fossil fuel exports within seven years, even under a disorderly transition to net zero.
06 . 12 . 2025
Bigger lesson in bad water and botched hydro plan amid energy transition
The failure of Queensland Labor’s “world’s biggest pumped hydro” project is a case study in how the difficult realities of the energy transition are too easily ignored by politicians seeking electoral opportunity.
06 . 12 . 2025
When it comes to renewables it’s facts versus Ferguson’s fiction
“Power bills are high but the rollout of renewables are not the cause.” Consider that sentence; a staggering understatement, followed by a brazenly false assertion.
06 . 12 . 2025
AGL Energy abandons major offshore wind farm project in a blow to Victoria’s green transition
AGL Energy has walked away from its Victorian offshore wind ambitions, toppling a third project in the Gippsland region and throwing into disarray the Allan government’s plan to trade coal for the clean energy source.
05 . 12 . 2025
Wind Prospect: 18 members of the Ngunnawal, Indigenous community slam wind farm in explosive letter
A green energy company proposing to build a giant wind farm in regional NSW has received an explosive letter from local First Nations people, saying it is “not welcome” and the project “doesn’t belong here”.
05 . 12 . 2025
Rita Panahi: When the state gives itself the right to intrude on your land without your permission, it’s breaching a fundamental right
Labor’s treatment of rural Victorians has been shameful. But the country is fighting back and one particular standoff shows how fed up farming communities are with the state government.
05 . 12 . 2025
Forrest finds asbestos in turbines, crisis rattles Labor’s renewable rollout
Iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest is the latest green energy player to be caught up in a widening systemic failure after asbestos was found contained within new imported turbine components at one of his wind farms.
04 . 12 . 2025
If the road to net zero were open-heart surgery, it’s botched
‘‘If the energy transition is an open-heart surgery, as is sometimes said, then this operation has been a complete failure. We have to conclude: The patient is in danger of dying on the operating table.’’
04 . 12 . 2025
A shocking truth: diesel is driving Labor’s renewables plan
We now know the Albanese government’s renewables power plan was based on incorrect data and is in trouble. So let’s look at who was responsible for keeping it a secret.
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
