Tag AGL
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Smart meter challenge results in removal
An Echo reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, has told of their difficult – yet finally successful – experience of getting a smart meter uninstalled at their home.
March 22, 2017 | The Echo | 7 -
AGL invests in world’s largest battery-storage virtual power plant
AGL Energy has announced plans to develop what it describes as ‘the world’s largest battery storage ‘virtual power plant’ in South Australia, in a foretaste of what many expect to be the energy system of the future.
August 8, 2016 | Giles Parkinson | 0 -
Energy transition can happen ‘overnight’ says AGL
So, just how fast can the transition to a clean energy economy occur? Is the 50 per cent renewable energy target proposed by Labor for 2030 too fast? Or are the 100 per cent renewable energy scenarios for 2030 prepared by research academics too slow?
May 10, 2016 | Giles Parkinson | 0 -
AGL eyes ‘virtual power plants’ in link with battery storage developer
Australian energy utility AGL Energy has spent $A28 million snapping up a minority stake in US-based battery storage solutions provider Sunverge as it seeks to accelerate its push into distributed generation and rooftop solar and storage and smart software.
February 15, 2016 | Giles Parkinson | 0 -
Labor welcomes AGL decision on Gloucester
Luke Foley and Adam Searle, NSW Labor. Energy company AGL’s decision to cease CSG activity in Camden by 2023 and not proceed with the Gloucester Gas Project has been welcomed by the NSW Opposition.
February 5, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
AGL pull-out from Gloucester CSG project ‘a massive win’
Energy provider AGL has made the expensive decision to quit gas exploration and production, including several controversial CSG projects.
February 4, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Toxic tankers back on northern rivers roads
In the lead-up to the festive season, CSG miner AGL has confirmed it is again using tankers to haul toxic wastewater via the Pacific Highway to Queensland for processing, prompting local anti-gas groups to query if the company is prepared for a potential accident.
December 7, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 7 -
Gas activists target toxic tankers
Anti-gas activists are concerned that waste water from AGL’s Gloucester gas mines is being transported through the northern rivers region.
August 6, 2015 | Darren Coyne | 3 -
Metgasco warned: ‘Use it or lose it’
Ballina MP Tamara Smith has called on the state government to either buy back or cancel Metgasco’s license to drill for coal seam gas in the northern rivers. The call follows an announcement from miner AGL that it was divesting its CSG assets in Western Sydney and the Hunter Valley.
July 7, 2015 | Darren Coyne | 7 -
AGL Energy gets green light for Gloucester
AGL Energy is free to resume coal seam gas operations at a site in northern NSW after an investigation into the detection of dangerous chemicals found no harm to the environment.
May 20, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
AGL fined $700,000 for misleading customers
Energy retailer AGL has been fined $700,000 for misleading customers in South Australia about discounts on their power bills.
April 30, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Greens welcome AGL solar plant
Greens NSW regional renewable energy spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham last week congratulated AGL and the NSW government on the completion of the Nyngan solar plant, saying this type of project was the best way to power the state and create jobs in the regions.
April 20, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
AGL launches CSG review as key managers quit
AGL announced yesterday that the manager of its upstream gas business, Mike Mozra, will depart the company early, only weeks after it admitted it had delayed reporting the presence of BTEX chemicals in flowback water from its Gloucester CSG drilling wells to the EPA.
February 19, 2015 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Fracking fluid found in Gloucester groundwater
The Greens mining spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham says the community's worst fears have been realised, with the EPA announcing they are investigating AGL's detection of fracking chemicals in ground water after recent hydraulic fracturing operations at Gloucester.
January 16, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 8 -
Gloucester calls for protectors as AGL prepares for final frack
Gasfield Free Northern Rivers has put out a call for people to attend the Gloucester protectors’ camp this coming weekend as AGL prepares to frack its final test well in the region.
November 25, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 0 -
Gloucester breakfast heats up
Forty local residents slowly rode bicycles along the no stopping section of Fairbairns Road this morning in an attempt to slow access to AGL’s fracking site. The bus containing workers took a different route to avoid this protest on wheels.
November 6, 2014 | Eve Jeffery | 4 -
Arrests at Gloucester as camp takes root
There were more arrests at Gloucester three hours north of Sydney this morning, as fracking continues behind a five metre high bush-green wall less than 150 metres from the heavily guarded road.
November 5, 2014 | Eve Jeffery | 0 -
AGL security threatens Gloucester CSG protesters
A northern rivers gasfield-free activist, who has been visiting AGL’s CSG site at Gloucester says the company’s security guards have been using heavy-handed tactics on non-violent protesters.
October 29, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
AGL’s actions shameful
AGL received from us the taxpayers, via the great work of its paid lobbyists and its mates in government a total of $231,600,000 to help build its large solar farms. See it at its own web site to confirm.
October 29, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Two more charged at Gloucester CSG site
A further two men have been charged this morning while attempting to lock on to a work vehicle at a protest near an AGL coal seam gas site in Gloucester. This follows two arrests yesterday.
October 28, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
AGL Energy calls for renewables target to be scrapped completely
As speculation increased that the government and Labor would agree on a compromise that would result in a significant hair-cut to the current target, AGL intervened in the debate by saying that was not good enough
October 28, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Nine Gloucester locals arrested protesting CSG fracking
Nine people have been arrested during protest activity near AGL’s coal seam gas site at Gloucester so far this week after fracking equipment arrived in Gloucester on Monday morning
October 23, 2014 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Protests continue at AGL frack site
Gloucester locals this morning blocked access to the site where gas company AGL plans to frack for coal seam gas.
August 26, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
AGL’s Gloucester gas project smells dodgy
Julie Lyford (former mayor of Gloucester), Chris Sheed (president of Manning Clean Water Action Group. Something dodgy is going on with AGL's Gloucester gas project, and we need to get to the bottom of it. How much money has AGL donated to political parties, and what did they receive in return?
August 20, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Gas company ‘donated during approval stage’
Calls are being made for work on AGL’s controversial Gloucester gas project should stop immediately pending a full inquiry into the payment by the company of more than $100,000 in political donations while the project was being approved.
August 13, 2014 | Echonetdaily | 2
