While the east coast braces for soaring prices, power bills in the ACT are set to fall from July 1, providing an annual saving to households of $23. Labor wants cheaper renewable sources to supply 82 per cent of electricity by 2030, claiming this will save households $275 a year by 2025, and $378 by 2030.īut Ms King said more coal was needed for now. 'There's been unplanned outages for many reasons, many beyond the control of those operators and I do accept that, but I hope they're doing their best to make sure this power source comes online as well.' 'In the very short term, what we really need to do is to have the coal power stations come back online because that is the missing piece of the puzzle right now,' she told ABC radio on Tuesday. There is global pressure on gas prices as nations reject abundant Russian gas following the country's invasion of Ukraine. Germany has drafted laws to prevent coal power stations destined for the scrapheap from being axed, ordering them to be kept on standby instead.
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Italy, Bulgaria, Romania and the Czech Republic also plan to burn more coal as a temporary measure while they reduce reliance on Russian gas, and the UK is drilling for more gas in the North Sea.ĪGL currently has three coal power stations in NSW and Victoria either offline or on reduced capacity due to scheduled and unscheduled maintenance issues. Origin's Eraring power station, the largest in NSW, has also been crippled by coal production cutbacks at its neighbouring conveyor belt-connected coalmine.Īt least a quarter of Australia's coal-fired electricity production is currently offline while the east coast shivers through a freezing winter amid soaring price rises It's had to buy coal on the open market as prices surge because of the global crisis sparked by the war in Ukraine, which forces electricity prices up further. Queensland's Callide coal power station is also offline after an explosion at the plant, creating a perfect storm just as the bitter cold snap hit Australia's east coast. #INTERNET BLACKOUTS SKYROCKET AMID GLOBAL UNREST OFFLINE# The maintenance work at affected power stations is not expected to be completed until July at the earliest while Callide is out until December, but Labor is demanding the work is now fast-tracked.Įnergy Minister Chris Bowen will meet his state and territory counterparts on Wednesday to discuss solutions as the Albanese government considers short- and longer-term solutions to take pressure off prices. It comes comes just five days after Mr Bowen appeared on stage with leading members of Emergency Leaders For Climate Action and declared the new government will take 'real action on climate change'. #INTERNET BLACKOUTS SKYROCKET AMID GLOBAL UNREST OFFLINE#.“The only thing that could cause a social explosion in this country,” a Cuban friend told me in 2019, “is a lack of food and medicine.” Today, the grocery and pharmacy shelves are bare, the COVID-19 pandemic is resurgent, inflation is eating away at workers’ real incomes, and periodic electricity blackouts are aggravating everyone’s misery. The social explosion my friend foresaw broke out on Sunday, July 11, beginning in a poor suburb of Havana, then spreading via social media to a dozen cities across the island, drawing thousands of people into the streets-marching, shouting anti-government slogans, and, in some places, battling police and looting. Not since the 1994 riot on the Havana waterfront, at the depth of the depression caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union, has Cuba experienced such serious social unrest.Ī number of factors-economic, social, and political-converged this year to ignite these unprecedented demonstrations in a country whose communist regime has managed to keep a tight lid on opposition for more than half a century.įirst and foremost, the Cuban economy is a shamble and the government is broke. Over the past two years, Cuba has lost every major source of foreign exchange earnings. Venezuelan exports of cheap oil for Cuba have been cut by half, causing fuel shortages. The Trump administration convinced Latin American countries to kick out Cuban doctors working on medical services contracts.
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