Stephanie Carrick

The government is claiming that they are being deluged with FOI requests, particularly ones that aren't for personal information, and so need to make it harder to access public information.

It's hard to square this pretext with the reality that FOI request statistics are basically flat.

Inside the AI race: can data centres ever truly be green? Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels

There are 85 gas-fired power facilities in development globally to supply data centres & AI

The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show

What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations

www.ft.com/content/0f61...

+ plenty more horrror stories all in here. www.soe.epa.nsw.gov.au/sites/defaul...

3/3 Climate

2/3 Plants

Sitting on this truly shocking NSW State of the Environment report and doing basically nothing about it in the budget is insane. 1/3 Animals

Opinion | What Environmentalists Like Me Got Wrong About Climate Change

It's great to see some thoughtful reflection in this op-ed on how wrong Americans were to largely ignore methane in climate action plans this century. I'd add:

- Groups that endorsed natural gas as a bridge fuel, such as Democrats and some big greens, share responsibility for methane pollution

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Just read a proposal for a housing development that argued by bulldozing critically endangered forest/koala habitat and instead planting non-native street trees they will be contributing to an increase in urban canopy targets. My god.

There was a group of community independents that ran on this issue for the council elections, but they didn’t win any seats.

Unfortunately where I live they do it the other way, knock down art deco apartment blocks and replace them with millionaire dream homes.

The NSW Planning Secretary that fast-tracked it now works for them - go figure!

Yes Walker Corp bulldozed a koala breeding ground to build McMansions in Appin leaving them to die on the surrounding roads.

And don’t forget the millions/billions developers make before a shovel even goes in the ground by successfully lobbying to rezone rural koala habitat as “urban”.

Same as Tanya, the two party contest in their inner-city Sydney seats are the Greens not Libs, so they put the boot in whenever they can.

Every single young Australian would need to order 4,888 t-shirts from Temu each year (13 per day) to match Woodside's current emissions.

And to reach Woodside's maximum emissions estimates for the North West Shelf Extension? They would each need to order 214,571 t-shirts. #woodsideenergy

NEW from me: China's CO2 emissions fell ~1.6% in the first quarter and have now been flat or down for more than a year. This is the first time on record that emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Did the journalist refer to her husband’s on record donation of 50k to Advance? Seems relevant.

NSW forestry agency should be shut down for repeatedly breaking law, critics argue Forestry Corporation says suggestion that it can be compared to a criminal bikie gang is ‘ridiculous’

A former magistrate and one of Australia’s most experienced scientists have launched an attack on the NSW government’s logging agency, describing it as effectively a “criminal organisation” that should be shut down after a string of court convictions.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Election result shows the Tasmanian salmon industry is still on the nose - The Australia Institute Labor and the Coalition went to the election with the same policy position on Tasmania's salmon industry: support at any cost.

In Franklin, the epicentre of the salmon industry, Independent Peter George achieved a swing of ~6% against Labor.
Mr George focused on fixing the salmon industry’s problems and – while he did not win the seat – he did win the vast majority of votes at booths adjacent to where the industry operates.

“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...

Coming from Goldman Sachs banker. Yet when the Greens suggest it in Aus…

We underestimate one another on climate change!

Such a brilliant important explainer from @dpcarrington.bsky.social on how we underestimate one another's willingness to address climate change and as a result we end up doing less.

Correcting this = more action!

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Sydney surburban sprawl that’s a death zone for koalas Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

I spoke to ABC News about our new research that shows around half of Campbelltown Council's last generation of disease free Koalas have been struck by vehicles. That’s 110 Koalas in the last 6 years.

Yet plans to cut off their corridors by NSW Gov persist.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers should be made to pay If a car generates more potholes, takes up more space and poses more risk, it is only fair that its owner pays more

“If a car generates more potholes in our roads, takes up more parking space and poses more danger to pedestrians, cyclists and other car occupants compared with smaller vehicles, then it is only fair that its owner pays more for driving that vehicle.”

Via @theguardian.com

Heard Island and McDonald Islands have seen a dramatic warming since 1940. The penguins there have enough to deal with even without the 10% tariffs just imposed on them.

In short: „We couldn‘t save the world economy from being diminished by climate change because that would have hurt the economy.“

So our penguins got tarrifs and Russia didn’t?

Also - a koala generation is recognised by the ICUN as 6 years. Impacts are measured by comparing one generation to the next. Koalas are doubly stuffed by the five year limit in these laws. @lisacox.bsky.social

Koalas live where people like to live and/or extract resources. Their numbers plummet over time because of the significant impacts that often occur despite the developer promising they won’t (and because use offsets that don’t work). IMO Koalas are utterly stuffed by this law change.