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Twiggy has been busy fortifying his self-image as human rights hero and climate change white knight even as he abandons his hyper-hyped green projects.

Construction of new wind farms for the national electricity grid, which are crucial to Anthony Albanese’s clean-energy ambitions, came to a halt in the first half of this year, as the godfather of Labor’s climate policies warns the government will miss its 82 per cent renewables target by “a big margin”.

Woodside will take operating control of Australia’s first major offshore oil and gas development in the Bass Strait from ExxonMobil, in a 50-year first.

The Allan government will debate giving VicGrid the power to access private farmland to build transmission towers in regional Victoria. Farmers are furious.

The Australian oil and gas industry is expected to pay a record $21.9 billion in taxes and royalties to federal, state and territory governments in 2024-25, reaffirming the industry’s substantial and ongoing contribution to the Australian economy.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson will move an urgency motion calling for an end to net zero, declaring that any Coalition Senator who abstains from the vote should be labelled a “coward”.

Andrew Forrest captivated politicians in 2022, when he outlined plans to turn Queensland into an exporter of hydrogen energy. Three years on, a $1bn pipeline is set to be completed with not a single customer.

It’s easier to pretend failed planet-saving schemes didn’t exist than to admit failure.

The WA Liberal Party has supported a motion to abandon a target of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, putting added pressure on Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley to drop the policy for the federal party.

After years of stock under performance and departure of the plan’s architect, BP has refined its strategy to focus more squarely on profits than green goals.