{"id":6664,"date":"2020-05-22T07:55:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:55:39","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:55:39","slug":"greens-will-fight-government-gas-pipe-dream-in-tech-roadmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/greens-will-fight-government-gas-pipe-dream-in-tech-roadmap\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens will fight government gas pipe dream in Tech Roadmap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has pledged to fight the government\u2019s gas push laid out in the Technology Road Map Discussion Paper released by the government today.
\nMr Bandt also said the leaked COVID Commission push for a gas-rush shows the corruption of process the government is using to develop a plan for manufacturing.
\n\u201cWe need to be ending Australia\u2019s addiction to toxic methane gas not feeding it,\u201d Mr Bandt said.
\n\u201cCoal, oil and gas are the primary cause of the climate crisis. We can’t solve the climate emergency and economic crisis by pouring gas on the fire.\u201d
\n\u201cThe energy race has been won and it is time for the Morrison government to back the winners of solar, wind, pumped hydro, battery storage and demand management.\u201d
\n\u201cWe should be helping industry electrify with renewables and fuel switching from gas to green hydrogen, not feed their expensive and dangerous addiction to gas. The amount of gas genuinely needed as a feedstock by industry is tiny compared to the country’s exports. We don’t need more gas mining and drilling.\u201d
\n\u201cThe leaked COVID commission gas plan shows the corrupt process at the heart of the government\u2019s policy. This idea of a Technology Roadmap is just a cover for the government driving a gas rush that will benefit its fossil fuel corporate mates.\u201d
\n\u201cThe trans-Australian gas pipeline is as ill thought out as the Bradfield Scheme and the Greens will fight it tooth and nail.
\n\u201cThe Greens\u2019 \u2018Invest to Recover\u2019 plan sets out a plan for hundreds of thousands of new jobs in an economy powered by hydrogen and programs enabling industry to electrify instead of burning gas.
\n\u201cAustralia shouldn’t just join the hydrogen manufacturing renaissance, it should lead it. We\u2019ve got vast resources that would mean Western Australia could power not only its manufacturing industry with green hydrogen, but ship the clean energy off to the rest of the world.
\n\u201cYet, with the Morrison government under the thumb of the methane mafia, we\u2019re set to spend these crucial years wasting time pushing the wrong type of gas.\u201d
\nThe Greens policies for industry to fuel switch away from gas including a $12 Billion Manufacturing Australia fund and reviving the Clean Technology Programs scrapped by Tony Abbott that were designed to support industry innovate with clean energy and become more efficient.
\nGreens Democracy Spokesperson Larissa Waters<\/strong>\u00a0said the Liberal Government\u2019s appointments stacked the commission to only one possible outcome.
\n\u201cThe fossil fuel lobby has paid for and bought this government,\u201d Senator Waters said.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that a gas-stacked Commission with minimal conflict of interest rules has recommended more water- and farm-wrecking gas.
\n\u201cFracked gas wrecks groundwater, farmland and our climate, and has trebled the price of gas which has imperilled domestic manufacturing, all \u00a0while lining the pockets of multinational companies.
\n\u201cThe Greens have had a bill to ban fracking and give landholders their right to say no to predator gas since 2011 but the big parties keep siding with their gas donors to block it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has pledged to fight the government\u2019s gas push laid out in the Technology Road Map Discussion Paper released by the government today. Mr Bandt also said the leaked COVID Commission push for a gas-rush shows the corruption of process the government is using to develop a plan for manufacturing. \u201cWe need … Continue reading “Greens will fight government gas pipe dream in Tech Roadmap”<\/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-6664","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\/6664","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=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}