CLIMATE CHANGE – DEMOCRACY’S DILEMMA
Reading Time: 18 mins 3rd July 2024
Author: Robert Watson
Are democratic institutions strong enough and brave enough to achieve meaningful emissions reductions and alleviate global warming?
Perhaps it’s time to turn to ancient Greece to find solutions to the developing climate change predicament ...
This essay discusses the difficulties democracies have in dealing with climate change and suggests a "Utopian" solution!
A WIN FOR US ALL- EXCEPT GLENCORE
Reading Time: 6 mins 1st June 2024
Author: Robert Watson
A WIN FOR US ALL - EXCEPT GLENCORE
The climate and Australia had a win this week. A proposal by the Glencore mining group to store liquified carbon dioxide (CO2) derived from a planned, but unproven, carbon capture process into subsurface sandstone beneath the Great Artesian Basin was rejected by the Queensland Government.
GLENCORE AND THE GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN
Reading Time: 11 mins 7th May 2024
Author: Robert Watson
GLENCORE AND THE GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN
Despite unified and diverse opposition, Glencore, one of the world's largest miners is proposing to capture carbon dioxide from it's Moonie gas field, liquifying the waste and transporting it almost 200km to deposit in the largest artesian water body in the world, the Great Artesian Basin covering 22% of the Australian continent.
CARBON CAPTURE & STORAGE – an expensive exercise in greenwashing
Reading Time: 20 mins 26th January 2024
Author: Robert Watson
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE - an expensive exercise in greenwashing
The effects of climate change and global warming are now being felt world wide. Respectable science is unanimous in acknowledging climate change, recognising that anthropogenic climate change – that caused by human impact – has quickly escalated the natural climate cycles that have occurred throughout Earth’s history.
COP28 all but failed to reach it's stated goals, settling for the lowest common denominator to pacify the growing fossil fuel lobby attending COP. The same board rooms of fossil fuel miners around the world have managed to elicit strong support for the carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology as a means of reducing CO2. CCS has not been successfully utilised as a major carbon reduction technology anywhere in the world despite billions of dollars being spent ...
DECARBONISING AUSTRALIA
Reading Time: 34 mins 5th July 2023
Author: Robert Watson
DECARBONISING AUSTRALIA
With the widespread use of carbon credits, expensive and unproven technologies, as well as new coal mine approvals, Australia is making the difficult job of reaching net zero by 2050 almost impossible.
Since May 2022 there have been three significant matters that will largely determine Australia’s direction on climate policy in the next few years. The first was the defeat of the Coalition government by the Anthony Albanese led Labor Party. The second matter was the reform to the Safeguard Mechanism by the new Labor government early in 2023, and the third and related matter was the Chubb Review into the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCUs) scheme.