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HOUSTON–BUSINESS WIRE– Regulatory News: SLB (NYSE: SLB) will hold a conference call on July 19, 2024, to discuss the results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2024. The conference call is scheduled to begin at 9:30 am US Eastern time and a press release regarding the results will be issued at 7:00 am US … Continued
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A Monash University expert is available to provide comment after a fire broke out at a lithium battery factory in South Korea today: Professor Matthew Hill, Head (incoming), Department of Materials Science and EngineeringContact details: +61 408 878 529 or Matthew.Hill@monash.edu The following quotes can be attributed to Professor Hill: “This is an absolute tragedy. … Continued
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A draft report released today into the May 2021 explosion that tore through Callide power station’s C4 Unit exposes a culture of poor risk management by operator CS Energy, the Mining and Energy Union said today. MEU Queensland President Mitch Hughes said Callide workers deserved an explanation of what had gone wrong as they worked towards returning … Continued
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The Queensland government has announced $40million for a Local Renewable Energy Zone (LREZ) in Townsville, with local network-connected batteries allowing renewable energy generated by rooftop solar to be shared amongst the whole community throughout the day and night. The LREZ allows households with rooftop solar to feed into community batteries during the middle of … Continued
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HIGHLIGHTS Collaboration Framework Agreement entered into with Shinshu University in Japan, a leading developer of photocatalyst materials, targeting pilot testing University of Adelaide provides in-principle support to locate the green hydrogen pilot plant at its Roseworthy Campus, located ~50km north of Adelaide, South Australia Pilot scale reactor design well progressed Sparc Technologies Limited (ASX: … Continued
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Weld Australia is raising urgent concerns about the critical shortage of skilled welders needed for the nuclear power plant program announced by Opposition leader Peter Dutton last week. The deficiency in highly skilled tradespeople, particularly welders, poses a significant threat to the successful execution of this national energy initiative. Opposition leader Peter Dutton announced … Continued
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CIMIC Group company UGL will deliver a major program of maintenance and upgrade works for Western Power, a Western Australian State Government owned corporation responsible for building, maintaining and operating the South West Interconnecting System (SWIS) electricity network. UGL will provide distribution and transmission overhead maintenance services across Western Power’s network. The five-year agreement is … Continued
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Canberra, Australia – Today Australia’s opposition leader, Peter Dutton announced a Coalition government’s future nuclear energy plans. Dutton named seven proposed sites for nuclear plants after boldly claiming the plan would cost less than Australia’s renewable energy development. Nuclear power plants are currently banned in all states and territories in Australia. While the final cost has … Continued
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Nuclear power stations will not provide a pathway into new employment for coal-fired power industry workers and the current debate is a distraction from securing new jobs in the Latrobe Valley, the Mining and Energy Union said today. With Peter Dutton’s Coalition announcing Loy Yang in Victoria as a future site for a nuclear power … Continued
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National environmental justice group Friends of the Earth Australia (FoE) has slammed opposition leader Peter Dutton’s release of the Coalition nuclear policy, describing it as a nuclear nightmare and a cynical ploy to keep burning coal and gas. Nuclear is simply too expensive and will take far too long to build to do anything useful … Continued
