{"id":6668,"date":"2020-05-22T07:57:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:57:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:57:36","slug":"green-manufacturing-not-fossil-fuels-the-way-out-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/green-manufacturing-not-fossil-fuels-the-way-out-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Manufacturing, Not Fossil Fuels, The Way Out Of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Industry spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2020\/may\/21\/leaked-covid-19-commission-report-calls-for-australian-taxpayers-to-underwrite-gas-industry-expansion\">leaked report of the COVID Commission\u2019s Manufacturing Taskforce<\/a>, which prioritises gas expansion as the way to rebuild manufacturing and create jobs.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cWe must revive Australian manufacturing, and this can and must be done with renewable energy. Choosing gas over renewables is completely intentional and a consequence of the government\u2019s cosy relationship with the fossil fuel industry.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government is using the COVID-19 crisis as cover to double down on their agenda of expanding fossil fuel extraction, while we\u2019re also in the midst of a climate breakdown. This is shameful politics to appease their mates in the gas industry.<br \/>\n\u201cAs an engineer, I know that Australian manufacturing can have a clean, jobs-rich future. But we have to make the right choices now to ensure the investment flows towards industries that also tackle the climate crisis.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is the time to set on a course to become a renewables powerhouse and attract 21st century industries like data centres, battery and carbon fibre manufacturing to Australia, all running on clean, green energy.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens have this week proposed investing $12 billion to establish a Manufacturing Australia Fund. This would modernise and expand Australian manufacturing, including green steel hubs in Queensland and NSW as well as the advanced manufacturing processes of the future.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government is bending over backwards to please the fossil fuel lobby. It\u2019s no coincidence these are the businesses and players who have donated enormous amounts of money to both the major parties over decades,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Industry spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has responded to a\u00a0leaked report of the COVID Commission\u2019s Manufacturing Taskforce, which prioritises gas expansion as the way to rebuild manufacturing and create jobs. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cWe must revive Australian manufacturing, and this can and must be done with renewable energy. Choosing gas over renewables is completely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/green-manufacturing-not-fossil-fuels-the-way-out-of-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Green Manufacturing, Not Fossil Fuels, The Way Out Of COVID-19&#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-6668","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\/6668","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=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}