Scott Morrison’s energy deal with NSW, announced this morning, is a huge win for fossil fuel company Santos, a major political donor with extensive ties to the Coalition.
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| Scott Morrison hands a win to fossil fuel companies. |
Morrison’s deal with Gladys Berejiklian’s Coalition government will provide $960 million in funding, mostly through loans, for renewable energy projects and grid infrastructure in exchange for “commitments from the NSW Government to facilitate investment opportunities to inject an additional 70 petajoules of gas per year into the east coast market” and “an undertaking from the NSW Government to remove barriers to coal supply to the Mount Piper Power Station”.
At the National Press Club on Wednesday, Morrison argued expanding natural gas supply for power generation represented “climate action now”, that “we need to get the gas from under our feet” and that “there is no credible energy transition plan for an economy like Australia in particular, that does not involve the greater use of gas as an important transition fuel”.
That statement is clearly, and easily shown to be, false.
Read the story from Crikey by Bernard Keane - “Morrison delivers big fossil fuel win for major donor Santos.”
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