Labor's $1.5 billion plan to "unlock" Northern Territory and Queensland gas would create far more emissions in Australia than Adani's coal mine, making it much tougher for a Shorten government to meet the nation's Paris climate goals.
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| The gas industry is a fast-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia - and could be a much larger one if Labor's plan to develop northern Australian gas fields go ahead. |
The proposal to help fund gas pipelines linking northern gasfields would allow pilot projects to be expanded, adding the equivalent of millions of tonnes of carbon-dioxide emissions a year.
Labor has pledged to beat Australia's current 2030 Paris targets by cutting emissions 45 per cent compared with 2005 levels. The pipeline plan would undermine that goal, according to analysts.
The NT's proposed Beetaloo gas fields alone have the potential to create 1240 petajoules of gas a year, according to the territory government's Fracking Inquiry report.
Read the story from The Age by Cole Latimer and Peter Hannam - “Labor’s $1.5b plan to 'unlock' gas would create more emissions than Adani coal mine, experts say.”
