17 . 02 . 2025
Australia pays price for Chris Bowen’s renewable energy push
Won’t Australia just be destroying its own power-intensive industries for almost no benefit to the planet?
15 . 02 . 2025
Smiles on the truck
A dental truck sponsored by the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) and Senex energy has landed in Wandoan and soon to be Theodore communities to provide much needed free dental services.
14 . 02 . 2025
China’s construction of coal-fired power plants reaches highest in a decade
China’s coal plant construction surged last year to the highest level in almost a decade,
conflicting with President Xi Jinping’s promise that carbon emissions would peak
before 2030, researchers have said.
13 . 02 . 2025
Energy bills could rise 69pc on current trajectory – think tank estimates
Energy bills could rise by nearly 70 per cent over the next 10 years under current government policy, a new report has estimated – findings likely to be seized on by the Coalition as it pushes its alternative plan.
11 . 02 . 2025
Abandon net zero, rescue the economy
‘To rescue our economy,’ Trump signed day-one orders ‘to end all Biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric vehicle mandate, cancel his natural gas export ban, reopen ANWR in Alaska (the biggest site potentially anywhere in the world), and declare a national energy emergency.’
11 . 02 . 2025
Green hydrogen has gone the way of the Norwegian Blue
If you believe Chris Bowen, green hydrogen in Australia is not dead or deceased or bereft of life. It’s just resting, pining for fields of solar panels and wind turbines.
11 . 02 . 2025
Marcus Catsaras: Where did a former recording studio manager get $2 million to bankroll teal MPs?
Voters trying to decipher the impact of rich donors might consider the curious case of the 31-year-old Marcus Catsaras, who over a few years has risen from managing the Cat’s Ass Studio to outspending billionaires on politicians.
10 . 02 . 2025
Wind turbine collapse in western Victoria ‘totally unacceptable’, engineer says
It is totally unacceptable to see a two-year-old wind turbine collapse.
09 . 02 . 2025
‘Parasites’, ‘cowboys’: The carbon companies dividing rural Australia
While some say the potential income from carbon has sent the price of land in prime carbon farming territory rocketing, others complain that the opaque business structures and focus on confidentiality have driven their property’s value down.
07 . 02 . 2025
‘More pain’: Aussies face higher power bills
Aussie households have been warned to brace for ongoing power bill increases over the next decade. See why and how it’ll affect you.
Hancock Energy is a Hancock Prospecting company.
