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\"Minister<\/p>\n

For the second time this week, Minister for Resources and Water Keith Pitt has issued a media release defending Australia’s coal industry and use.<\/p>\n

This appears to have been brought on by a couple of things – one was a study indicating pretty much all of Australia’s remaining coal reserves will need to remain unmined<\/a> to help give the world a fighting chance on reining in temperature increase. The other event was a UN special adviser calling on the Australian Government<\/a> to adopt more ambitious emissions reduction goals and rapidly phase out coal.<\/p>\n

Minister Pitt is pretty proud of Australia’s association with the problematic black (and brown) rock that is increasingly creating misery for others and ourselves. After a missive on Monday<\/a> indicating Australian policy would not be dictated by pesky foreigners trying to prevent (even more) climate change related disasters, yesterday he boasted:<\/p>\n

“Australia accounts for approximately 8 per cent of the world\u2019s thermal and metallurgical coal production, which is exported to over 25 countries including the UK, Germany and New Zealand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll just change a couple of words.<\/p>\n

“Australia accounts for approximately 8 per cent of the world\u2019s crystal meth production, which is exported to etc…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Would that be something to be proud of? Or to put it another way using pandemic parlance, being a super-spreader of emissions<\/a> isn’t something we should being crowing about given the perilous climate situation.<\/p>\n

Coal Power And CCS<\/h2>\n

On coal-fired power generation in Australia, Minister Pitt said:<\/p>\n

“Coal-fired power still provides around 65 per cent of Australia\u2019s electricity and remains the most reliable form of power generation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same deal on the first bit and as for the second bit, well, Callide<\/a>. But Callide isn’t the only coal burner to have shat itself at some point this year. Other units have too<\/a> – just not as spectacularly or with such impacts. Coal plant failures in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland have been on the increase<\/a>, even with renewables such as wind and solar power helping to take some of the load off these emissions-spewing clunkers.<\/p>\n

But Minister Pitt is also looking towards technologies such as carbon capture and storage contributing to a reduction in coal-fired power station emissions “by 90 per cent or more”.<\/p>\n

A bunch of taxpayer bucks<\/a> have been committed to develop CCS technologies over a long period and we’re yet to see any working reliably and economically at scale here – or anywhere in the world for that matter. Case in point: Chevron Australia\u2019s Gorgon LNG facility CCS project<\/a> in Western Australia.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, a CCS plant that literally sucks<\/a> has getting some attention this week, but it and other CCS technologies – even if successful to some degree – do not make for real solutions given the myriad problems associated with coal power other than greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n

But it seems we’re now going to throw even more money at CCS via the Australian Renewable Energy1<\/a><\/sup> Agency (ARENA) thanks to Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor fiddling with regulations that control how the agency spends its cash.<\/p>\n

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. That prevention lies in renewable energy backed by storage – what millions of Australian households and businesses are doing already with their solar power<\/a> systems, and increasingly will in the future with solar battery storage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Given the Australian Government’s current attitude, UN climate talks in Glasgow in November are going to be interesting and perhaps a little uncomfortable at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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