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The NSW EPA has recommended additional processing of waste that Cleanaway accepts for energy recovery, while Australian Paper's planned Victorian waste to energy facility has a new potential feedstock supplier.

Victoria's Planning Minister today took over from councils responsibility for approving all energy projects greater than 1MW, including gas, pumped-hydro and waste-to-energy developments.

As the pandemic threat subsides, the Victorian government is under pressure to release statutory emissions targets and announce new coal power station licence conditions.

The Western Australian government has granted environmental approval for the 15GW first stage of the Asian Renewable Energy Hub.

A decade after an international energy company sought environmental approval for a major wind farm, it has secured approval for a dramatically scaled-back version.

A tribunal has set aside a wind farm permit after finding that the developer failed to get the consent of the owners of buildings including a nearby converted dairy and a small cabin.

A renewables project proposed by Neoen would deliver more than two million tonnes of carbon abatement annually, and allow it to offer cheap hedge contracts to industry, according to the company's development application.

A Pilbara facility that supplies 5% of the world's ammonia has applied for approval to produce green hydrogen.

The spiralling costs of biodiversity offsets in NSW is often a problem for proponents of clean energy projects in the state, according to the Clean Energy Council.

Fortescue acknowledges its proposed gas-fired power station in the Pilbara will emit more than 600,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas annually, but says this is much lower than its originally approved plan.