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Resource-rich Western Australia will need new gas and renewable energy sources along with storage to address projected energy shortfalls.

Geelong’s smouldering oil refinery will constrain Australia’s domestic fuel supply for at least three months, according to an estimate of the damage caused by the blaze at Viva Energy’s facility.

Chevron, Shell and BP have warned new taxes will discourage investment in Australia, ahead of a senate committee into Australia’s gas tax regime.

Australia faces a glut of old solar panels polluting the environment by leaching toxic chemicals into landfill with no viable reuse or ­recycling solutions available, the government’s own Department of Climate Change and Energy has warned.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has shocked foreign investors in local mining, energy and infrastructure by imposing a retrospective capital gains tax dating back 20 years to raise billions of dollars for the federal budget, sparking warnings he is discouraging future investment in Australia.

A state government has been accused of chasing headlines after calling an inquiry into the impact of new federal environmental laws.

The disruption to the global order is bringing an age of rolling crises, and uncertainty is now a feature of the operating environment.

Santos’ chief has slammed approval processes for gas developments, urging them to be ‘more reliable and more workable’ if the PM’s goal to boost the number of gas fields is realised.

How on earth did Australia come to sign up to a $300bn to $350bn outlay on a renewables project that, partly because of high borrowing charges, will eventually cost $1 trillion spread over 35 years and lock our biggest states, NSW and Victoria, into exorbitant power prices for three decades?

How could Australia be suffering a double energy crisis when the nation exports several times more energy than it consumes and far more than the United States, which has no energy crisis?

Environment writers who claim the Iran war oil shock will be a boost for renewable energy don’t understand how industrial production actually works.

The science is never settled, and our leaders are afraid to admit it.