Energy policy can’t be blacked out

Griffith Business School
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The 2017 Federal Budget includes incentives for development of more gas supplies via pipeline construction. However, a focus on LNG exports only diverts the energy policy debate away from the transmission infrastructure crisis highlighted by the summer blackouts. By Dr Liam Wagner, Griffith Business School Overview Australia has a gas crisis like no other point […]

Australia must step up on carbon pricing

Griffith University's Jeremy Williams says an effective price on carbon pollution is now crucial.
Griffith Business School
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Griffith University researchers are among a group of ‘concerned economists’ who have this week urged members of Federal Parliament to make carbon pollution and carbon pricing a policy priority. Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Professor Jeremy Williams, and Dr Chris Fleming, also a member of the APCSE, are among 59 signatories […]