{"id":14717,"date":"2022-02-01T10:54:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T10:54:33","slug":"labor-backing-morrisons-trojan-horse-for-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/labor-backing-morrisons-trojan-horse-for-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor backing Morrison\u2019s Trojan Horse for gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader Adam Bandt has expressed disappointment at Labor\u2019s capitulation to Scott Morrison\u2019s plan to give $600 million in public money to Snowy Hydro to build a gas-fired power plant that experts say we don\u2019t need.<br \/>\nIn 2021 Labor said the plan looked like \u201ca cynical attempt to pick a fight on gas and continue the climate wars, or to reward the major Liberal donor who owns the Kurri Kurri site.<br \/>\nThe Greens also said non-binding ideas of converting to green hydrogen down the line are a fig leaf for new gas infrastructure.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens leader, Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cGas is as dirty as coal. This power plant is Scott Morrison\u2019s Trojan horse for more methane gas, and now Labor is backing it too.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you\u2019re spending public money on new coal and gas projects, you\u2019re not serious about tackling the climate crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cPublic money should go to schools and hospitals, not dirty gas plants that aren\u2019t needed and will make the climate crisis worse.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals have got to go, but with Labor wanting more coal and gas, the only way to get climate action is to put the Greens in balance of power.<br \/>\n\u201cNon-binding pledges about green hydrogen don\u2019t stop this from being a terrible idea. The Kurri Kurri plan is so flawed that there is a major risk that it will run on diesel before it ever runs on hydrogen.<br \/>\n\u201cCurrently there is no gas to feed the proposed plan, which is why it is planned to run on diesel for up to 12 months, after which new gas fields like Narrabri will \u00a0be fracked to supply Kurri Kurri.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s stupid to use public money to build a methane-fuelled power plant that may some day be powered by something else instead of just building more renewables and storage right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader Adam Bandt has expressed disappointment at Labor\u2019s capitulation to Scott Morrison\u2019s plan to give $600 million in public money to Snowy Hydro to build a gas-fired power plant that experts say we don\u2019t need. In 2021 Labor said the plan looked like \u201ca cynical attempt to pick a fight on gas and continue &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/labor-backing-morrisons-trojan-horse-for-gas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor backing Morrison\u2019s Trojan Horse for gas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}