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| Martin Ferguson - still living in fossil fuel era. |
The former Labor Resources Minister today illustrated that
he is still locked in the fossil fuel era.
Mr Ferguson has long been critical of the New South Wales
position of adhering to a moratorium on coal seam gas and now argues that the “NSW
disease” is catching and pushing the Northern Territory to the brink of “catastrophic”
gas shortages.
The exploitation of coal seam gas, or “fracking as it is colloquially
known brings many known and unknown problems; many matters that are simply an
extension of issues directly linked to human-caused damage to Earth’s atmosphere.
A planned $800 million pipeline to bring the NT gas to
Queensland means jobs for many and viewed through Mr Ferguson’s antiquated and
seriously dated prism, the pipeline and it associated fracking makes sense.
Evidential experience shows that fracking is a short-term
answer and rather than spending millions on what will ultimately be a dinosaur,
Mr Ferguson should be pushing for, and encouraging people to invest in and
create renewable energy, either solar or wind and, particularly in northern
Australia, tidal energy.
Overseas experience shows that renewable energy creates as
many, if not more jobs than those of the now dying fossil fuels industry.
Read the story in the BusinessDay
section of today’s Melbourne Age
- “Former resources minister Martin Ferguson blasts NT Labor on gas.”
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