The U.S. Super Bowl is as famous for its ads as its football. This year was no different except for the number of ads by big auto companies for electric cars. My favourite was GM’s “No Way Norway” featuring Will Ferrell and the new GMC Hummer electric vehicle. It was funny, but Australia may […]
Is Carbon Neutral Doable?
When I heard one of the world’s biggest car makers wants to go all electric by 2035 I knew this was going to be a very disruptive bit of news. Global auto giant GM—which had sales of over 2.5M cars and light trucks last year—announced last week that it aims to stop selling all gasoline […]
De-Carbonate Or Decline
In a sign of the times the NSW Government has rolled out a $32B investment roadmap for 12 GigaWatts of new wind, solar and storage based electricity. The plan targets new private sector investment in electricity infrastructure by 2030, including the development of renewable energy zones and energy storage projects. But it’s just another vote […]
Clean Energy Exports Big Copper News
I blogged about the huge Northern Territory solar farm exporting energy to Singapore last year, saying I’d keep an eye on it. Well it looks like it’s a goer. And that’s massive for copper. The $20B, 12,000 hectare, 10 GigaWatt solar farm—the world’s biggest—will use a hell of a lot of copper in the panels, […]
Pandemic Speeds Mining Re-Think
I was struck recently by an article in the Australian Fin Review talking about the future of mining in light of a potential pandemic re-set. Written by Accenture’s David Burns, who heads the company’s natural resources practice globally, it says the shock of Covid’s impact on mining operations is “accelerating its digital transformation”. He says […]
Australian Copper Set To Soar
Resources market analysts Fitch Solutions have just published research predicting a rosy future for Australia’s copper miners. The gold ones will do well too they say. They put this down to to their low costs of production, high-grades and good government regulations over the next decade. They also expect five years of growth for copper […]
Is Copper’s ‘Golden Period’ Next?
The Covid-19 pandemic has hit global copper demand hard—down by 3%-4% this year by most expectations—but that’s not looking like a long term problem for copper miners. The analysts are seeing booming Chinese demand as they quickly return to economic health, pandemic hit disruptions from South America, the U.S. and Africa, and low inventory levels […]
Smart Homes Are More Than Technology
Smart homes may be hyped on convenience & high tech comfort, but they could do a lot more . A new study says they could help deliver carbon reductions, energy bill savings and improved system resilience across the country. The authors say that mass adoption of solar energy like roof top panels, battery storage, intelligent […]
Let There Be Light (And Power)
Asia Pacific is on track to see 100% electricity access soon. And that’s a big deal. The news come via a recent report card on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal-or SDGs-of which “Affordable & Clean Energy” is number 7. It can’t come too soon for the 200M people still without electricity, but the region managed […]
Global Copper Use To Hit 30M Tonnes Next Year
There’s a lot of predictions about rising copper use I’m glad to say. The latest Copper data sets on the www.copperalliance.org site suggest that in 2019 copper demand had hit 29M tonnes of which 5.7M tonnes was recycled scrap. And a new global copper study (https://www.reportlinker.com/p0459175/Global-Copper-Industry.html?utm_source=GNW) says world use will rise by roughly 3M metric […]
Zero Emissions Mines Have Started
Earlier this year Oz Minerals announced it would source nearly all the energy needs of a new nickel mine from clean energy sources like wind and solar. It may not have got a lot of media attention at the time, but it should have. Not only does it signal mining is getting cleaner, greener & […]
Licence To Operate Is Now Biggest Risk
Nearly half of mining companies globally rank licence to operate as their biggest risk to business says new report. And that’s for the second year in in a row. Ernst and Young’s Top 10 Business Risks and Opportunities 2020 report found 44% of the world’s top mining executives say reputation & community support are their […]
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