Following reports of the government\u2019s energy roadmap, Leader of the Australian Greens Adam Bandt MP has slammed the plan, declaring it as a cover for an expansion of major fossil fuel projects. While reports indicate the roadmap includes references to green hydrogen, it places a focus on blue hydrogen made with fossil fuels and failed carbon capture technology, it locks in coal and gas, and has no science-based binding targets to reduce carbon emissions over the next decade.
\n\u201cThis roadmap will take us off a cliff,\u201d Mr Bandt said. \u201cThe Morrison government is accelerating towards climate collapse.\u201d
\n\u201cThis technology list is a fig leaf for the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry. \u201cThis roadmap contains no plan to phase out coal and gas. In fact, the roadmap bakes in coal and gas for years to come, subsidising the coal and gas cartels from the public purse.
\n\u201cCarbon capture and storage is unicorn technology that has already had millions of dollars of public money poured into it.
\n\u201cThis is corporate capture and profit as the coal and gas cartels get access to billions of dollars meant for renewables.
\n\u201cWe already have the technology we need to move to a clean energy economy that exports hydrogen to our neighbours.
\n\u201cPeople across the country are demanding a rapid transition to renewable energy, not just putting solar panels next to new gas wells. This approach doubles down on last century\u2019s technology, all to suit the coal and gas corporations whose fingerprints are all over this roadmap.
\n“Across the country, people are crying out for a transformative shift to clean energy, and the hundreds of thousands of jobs it will create.
\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t have a plan to phase out coal and gas in the next decade you don\u2019t have a real plan for climate action.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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