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"Three years ago, when the federal Coalition government flew in the face of
climate science and horrified the renewables industry with Scott Morrison’s
plan for a “gas-led recovery” for post-Covid Australia, the then shadow
minister for environment denounced the policy as a fraud.
“It’s a slogan, it’s not a policy. It’s simply a fraud,” Chris Bowen said. As
federal energy minister in December 2022, Bowen doubled down on this view.
Fast forward to May 2024 and federal Labor has come up with something that is,
arguably, worse.
The Future Gas Strategy, unveiled on Thursday by federal resources minister
Madeleine King, reads like a 110-page love letter to the gas industry, seeking
to lock in the climate wrecking fossil fuel as a “crucial” energy generation
and export staple through “to 2050 and beyond.”
According to the strategy, not only will Australia continue to burn all of the
methane gas currently available to it, but it will continue to seek out new
reserves and exploit them, something the International Energy Agency called for
an end to back in 2021. It will not support state and territory government
moves to ban fossil gas from homes."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
