Have Your Say

Newcastle Herald readers have their say: Wednesday May, 26, 2021

By Letters to the Editor
May 26 2021 - 7:30am
The Morrison government has said it will build a gas plant at Kurri Kurri, to be operated by Snowy Hydro 2.0.
The Morrison government has said it will build a gas plant at Kurri Kurri, to be operated by Snowy Hydro 2.0.

THE federal government's plan to spend $600 million to build the new Kurri Kurri gas plant is simply a bad decision - bad for our economy, jobs and climate. Why else would the conservative International Energy Agency strongly urge wealthy countries like Australia to abandon plans for new coal power, gas and oil investments? The IEA is far from a feel-good tree-hugging environmental group. For this organisation to advise the world to shift away from fossil fuels, it is clear that the writing is up on the wall for the fossil fuel industry. Our federal government will do well to follow global market trends instead of pouring taxpayers money into future stranded assets.

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