We’ve summarised the climate policies of the Liberal National Party, Australian Labor Party and the Australian Greens so you can vote in the 2022 federal election armed with the facts.
4 days ago
Australian billionaire Dr Andrew Forrest has announced plans to build a gas and hydrogen dual-fuelled power station at Port Kembla.
The $1 billion initiative, funded by Dr Forrest’s privately owned Squadron Energy, will provide industries and households in NSW with access to affordable, green energy.
Stage one of Andrew Forrest’s plan, the Port Kembla Gas Import Terminal, is currently under construction at Berth 101 of the Port of Port Kembla.
Stage two was the development of a gas-fired power station linked to the Gas Import Terminal, and was shortlisted by the federal government in the Underwriting New Generation Investment scheme.
Since he was appointed by Scott Morrison in late 2018:
First: Relations between the states and the federal government have broken down. That is a failure of politics, not of policy. It’s a sign of a bad politician that he can’t bring a consensus along with him. By contrast, in NSW, state Liberal minister Matt Kean brought everyone along with him for the NSW electricity strategy, except for the party you are basically happy to have opposed to you, namely the “hunters and fishers”. Such a funny, atavistic name.
Second: The federal government has ceded control of the electricity and energy agenda to the states. Because of the lack of credible, or indeed any federal policy, the states have taken matters into their own hands. That’s a failure of politics.