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Govt’s $540m green energy package not related to Biden climate summit: Stuart Robert21/04/2021|8min
Employment Minister Stuart Robert has denied the Morrison government’s $540 million green energy announcement was strategic days out from US President Joe Biden’s climate summit.
The package will see the Morrison government spend $276 million in acceleration four hydrogen hubs in regional Australia, and $264 million in carbon capture projects.
Mr Robert denied the connection between the announcement and President Biden’s summit and said Energy Minister Angus Taylor announced the first hydrogen hub in February.
“Hydrogen is something our country has been looking at for a long long time,” he said.
At the end of the day Australia accounts for 1 3 per cent of emissions
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