AGL withdraws request for federal approval
THE federal government has been spared the need to make a formal decision on power company AGL’s plans to import liquified natural gas through a floating terminal at Crib Point.
Flinders MP Greg Hunt last week said that “neither an approval nor refusal” would need to be made as AGL had withdrawn its proposal from consideration under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The withdrawal at the federal level by AGL comes one month after the state government knocked its plan back on environmental grounds (“State terminates AGL’s gas import plan”
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Green groups blast Barilaroâs âcherry-pickingâ Hunter pollution claim
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Hunter Valley health and environment advocates have dismissed as âlaughableâ claims by Deputy Premier John Barilaro that the pollution data for the region had been manipulated by opponents of mining for political purposes.
âThis whole issue around clean air especially in the Upper Hunter and across the state is that people manipulate the data to suit their argument,â Mr Barilaro told local ABC radio on Tuesday, referring to air-quality information gathered by the governmentâs own network of monitoring sites.
1 April 2021
AGL Energy’s recently announced plans to split up its energy business, carving out its fossil fuel assets into a separate business, have raised fresh fears that the company has not set aside sufficient funds to properly decommission its coal fired power stations.
Environmental legal advocacy group Environmental Justice Australia (EJA) says that the split of the AGL business will create significant uncertainty about the future of the company’s coal and gas projects and that there is a lack of detail currently available on AGL’s plans.
AGL announced this week that it is proposing split its business into two, with its coal and gas assets split off into a separate business dedicated to electricity generation, while its retail and clean energy businesses remain within the core AGL brand. EJA said that the added dimension of AGL’s proposed business split adds to the uncertainty over the future of the company’s power station sites.