The Victorian Greens have slammed Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor Government for approving new gas drilling in the Otway and Gippsland basins, warning it locks Victoria into decades more fossil fuel pollution, accelerates climate-driven disasters, and hands special treatment to gas corporations at the expense of ordinary Victorians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Expanding gas slows down the renewable transition by diverting investment and delaying electrification. AEMO\u2019s modelling does not suggest Victoria needs new gas projects – the real bottleneck is the slow rollout of renewable energy, storage and transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Experts and economists have made it clear that opening new fossil fuel projects delays the transition and locks pollution into the grid for decades. Instead of fixing those failures, Labor is giving fossil fuel corporations exactly what they want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Greens say Labor is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on climate – and that they\u2019re misleading Victorians by claiming to accelerate the transition while approving fossil fuel projects that make the climate crisis worse and energy more expensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Leader of the Victorian Greens, Ellen Sandell:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cJacinta Allan\u2019s Labor is giving special treatment to fossil fuel corporations while Victorians face higher bills and worsening climate disasters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cApproving new fossil fuels in the middle of a worsening fire season is reckless. Real leadership listens to climate science and puts communities first, not gas corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Victorian Greens clean energy transition spokesperson, Dr Tim Read:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVictoria doesn\u2019t have a gas supply problem, we have a political problem. Labor is choosing special treatment for gas corporations instead of accelerating electrification and renewables, which would mean cheaper bills and improved energy security\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEvery new gas approval diverts investment away from clean energy and slows down the transition Victorians are already making. If Labor was serious about affordability or climate action, they\u2019d speed up renewables, not hand out favours to fossil fuel corporations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Victorian Greens have slammed Jacinta Allan\u2019s Labor Government for approving new gas drilling in the Otway and Gippsland basins, warning it locks Victoria into decades more fossil fuel pollution, accelerates climate-driven disasters, and hands special treatment to gas corporations at the expense of ordinary Victorians. Expanding gas slows down the renewable transition by diverting … Continue reading “Labor\u2019s special treatment for fossil fuel corporations abandons climate science and will slow transition to cheaper, cleaner energy”<\/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-36523","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\/36523","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=36523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36524,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36523\/revisions\/36524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}