Fossil Fuels & the Climate Crisis

Dystopian Burn

Dystopian take on an old gasworks

Warming up - another bulk carrier entering Newcastle harbour - the world's largest coal port

A coal bulk carrier sitting high in the water during its entry to the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, NSW. Australia is one of the world's largest exporters of thermal coal which is one of the major contributor's to the world's worsening climate crisis.

Coal-fired power

Transmission lines leading from Eraring power station on an un-seasonally hot autumn day.

An aerial view of Origin Energy's Eraring power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie, NSW. The plant is now Australia's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, burning 5.2 million tonnes of coal per year from five local mines and releasing nearly 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

Origin Energy's Eraring power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie, NSW is now Australia's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, burning 5.2 million tonnes of coal per year from five local mines and releasing nearly 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

Industrial vista

Eraring Power Station on a stormy afternoon on the NSW Central Coast. Owned by Origin Energy, Eraring is Australia's largest emitter of carbon dioxide, burning 5.2 million tonnes of coal per year from five local mines and releasing nearly 20 million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year.

Eraring power station on the shores of Lake Macquarie.

Industrial sunset

Vales Point power station on the NSW Central Coast illuminated by the setting sun.

Coal versus the future: part of a photographic project I am developing on the world's fossil fuel addiction and existential crisis of climate change. This image is Vales Point power station on the NSW Central Coast.

Coal versus the future: part of a photographic project I am developing on the world's fossil fuel addiction and existential crisis of climate change. This image is of Vales Point power station on the NSW Central Coast during a vivid autumn sunset.

Vales Point power station in Lake Macquarie on a late autumn evening

Coal fired relic

Wangi power station on the NSW Central Coast, is a heritage-listed relic of a bygone era of coal-fired power. The power station operated between 1956 and 1986 and the 12,000 square metre building was once the largest power station in New South Wales.

Detail of one of the bucket wheel conveyors at Newcastle's Carrington Coal Terminal, one of the two coal terminals that make Newcastle the world's largest export coal port.

The full scale of the bucket wheel conveyors at Newcastle's Carrington Coal Terminal can be seen in this shot.