Under pressure from the Greens, Labor has today backflipped again to support an important inquiry into the mammoth Middle Arm gas and petrochemical expansion, subsidised by taxpayers at a cost of $1.5b. The gas field is so large it will increase Australia\u2019s emissions by 25% and blow the shrinking chance of the Albanese government meeting its climate targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is Spokesperson for the Environment & Manager of Greens Business in the Senate: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn the middle of the climate crisis, Anthony Albanese is continuing Scott Morrison\u2019s gas fired recovery with $1.5 billion of taxpayer money to subsidise gas export and petrochemicals 3km away from the suburbs of Darwin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAs doctors have warned, the top end does not need another \u201cCancer Alley\u201d like has happened with gas feedstock and petrochemical production in Louisiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGas fuels the climate crisis and taxpayers should not be subsidising its dangerous expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGreenwashing gas and \u2018petrochemicals\u2019 as renewables means this entire project requires closer scrutiny.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Middle Arm gas and petrochemical project is a $1.5b the \u2018gas fired recovery\u2019 brainchild of former Dow Chemicals and Saudi Aramco chief and Donald Trump\u2019s confidant, Andrew Liveris. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n U.S gas frackers Tamboran have rights over a site at the Middle Arm project to build a gas export hub to export gas overseas from the Beetaloo region.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Under pressure from the Greens, Labor has today backflipped again to support an important inquiry into the mammoth Middle Arm gas and petrochemical expansion, subsidised by taxpayers at a cost of $1.5b. The gas field is so large it will increase Australia\u2019s emissions by 25% and blow the shrinking chance of the Albanese government meeting … Continue reading “LABOR COMPLETES DOUBLE BACKFLIP TO SUPPORT GREENS INQUIRY INTO MIDDLE ARM GAS EXPANSION”<\/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-22713","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\/22713","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=22713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22714,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions\/22714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}