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NEW - Morrison will 'fire the recovery' with fossil gas
Expect new gas hub, new pipeline, gas plants, gas research & 'voluntary industry-led code of conduct'
Ensuring efforts to recover from Covid crisis exacerbates the climate crisis
Thread #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-to-back-construction-of-new-gas-fired-power-station-20200914-p55vks.html
Expect new gas hub, new pipeline, gas plants, gas research & 'voluntary industry-led code of conduct'
Ensuring efforts to recover from Covid crisis exacerbates the climate crisis
Thread #auspol https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/morrison-to-back-construction-of-new-gas-fired-power-station-20200914-p55vks.html
Creation of an ‘Australian Gas Hub’ is eerily familiar to what Covid-19 Commission adviser, Saudi Aramco Board Member Andrew Liveris wants by importing the US gas boom (and bust) approach
Andrew 'tingles with pride' over Trump Liveris #auspol
Andrew 'tingles with pride' over Trump Liveris #auspol
“Unlocking five key gas basins” will be disastrous for Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions
Just two biggest Basins, along with existing pipeline of 22 major gas projects would almost equal Australia's total gas production
See @TheAusInstitute report
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/Weapons%20of%20Gas%20Destruction%20%5BWEB%5D.pdf
Just two biggest Basins, along with existing pipeline of 22 major gas projects would almost equal Australia's total gas production
See @TheAusInstitute report
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/Weapons%20of%20Gas%20Destruction%20%5BWEB%5D.pdf
“New agreements with the three east coast LNG exporters” is too little too late.
The exporters have helped triple gas supply in the last decade and yet Australians pay more for their gas.
And a 'voluntary industry-led code of conduct' lulz
Background https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-09/gas-prices-will-rise-and-there-is-not-much-we-can-do-to-stop-it/8340536
The exporters have helped triple gas supply in the last decade and yet Australians pay more for their gas.
And a 'voluntary industry-led code of conduct' lulz
Background https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-09/gas-prices-will-rise-and-there-is-not-much-we-can-do-to-stop-it/8340536
New money for "CSIRO's GISERA" sounds nice till you realise its compromised by its model
An alliance of fracking companies Santos, Origin Energy, Shell, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Tokyo Gas
The most recent report from GISERA
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-15/csiro-fracking-research-does-not-pass-pub-test-expert-says/12454942
An alliance of fracking companies Santos, Origin Energy, Shell, China National Offshore Oil Corporation and Tokyo Gas
The most recent report from GISERA
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-15/csiro-fracking-research-does-not-pass-pub-test-expert-says/12454942
Call for new gas pipelines, what Nev Power and Liveris were proposing in the Covid Commision.
But according to head of gas pipeline company APA:
“It is a throwaway thing to say we need more pipelines....The lack of pipelines is not the constraint.” https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/apa-boss-takes-apart-liveris-pipe-dreams-20190527-p51rmx
But according to head of gas pipeline company APA:
“It is a throwaway thing to say we need more pipelines....The lack of pipelines is not the constraint.” https://www.afr.com/companies/energy/apa-boss-takes-apart-liveris-pipe-dreams-20190527-p51rmx
Gas the job creator?
Not if you actually want to effectively create jobs.
It employs 0.2% of workforce.
Its the worst sector to invest in for job-creation cause its so capital intensive
See @TheAusInstitute @Tom_Swann @MarkOgge report https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P908%20Gas-fired%20backfire%20%5Bweb%5D.pdf
Not if you actually want to effectively create jobs.
It employs 0.2% of workforce.
Its the worst sector to invest in for job-creation cause its so capital intensive
See @TheAusInstitute @Tom_Swann @MarkOgge report https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P908%20Gas-fired%20backfire%20%5Bweb%5D.pdf
Now @AngusTaylorMP long-awaited Liddell Taskforce, which threatened to keep Liddell open, is now threatening to build its own gas plant if the private sector doesn’t jump to it
After delaying the transition it is now chastising everyone for waiting!!! https://reneweconomy.com.au/angus-taylors-liddell-taskforce-slammed-as-guise-for-propping-up-coal-69572/
After delaying the transition it is now chastising everyone for waiting!!! https://reneweconomy.com.au/angus-taylors-liddell-taskforce-slammed-as-guise-for-propping-up-coal-69572/
AGL announced closure in 2017 with plan to replace with cleaner power generation
Doubtful as always, gov requested @AEMO_Media investigate.
Result - "AGL’s plan would deliver sufficient dispatchable resources to fill the identified 850 MW resource gap"
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Media_Centre/2018/Liddell-Advice_Final_.pdf
Doubtful as always, gov requested @AEMO_Media investigate.
Result - "AGL’s plan would deliver sufficient dispatchable resources to fill the identified 850 MW resource gap"
https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Media_Centre/2018/Liddell-Advice_Final_.pdf
So why gas and why now?
Well coal for the Kurri Kurri site not popular with Taylor (see https://www.abc.net.au/radio/ballarat/programs/breakfast/angus-taylor/10878410)
He needs to justify more domestic demand for fossil gas, so in comes gov's Snowy Hydro to build CC gas plant
Thoughts @simonahac @KetanJ0 @dylanjmcconnell ?
Well coal for the Kurri Kurri site not popular with Taylor (see https://www.abc.net.au/radio/ballarat/programs/breakfast/angus-taylor/10878410)
He needs to justify more domestic demand for fossil gas, so in comes gov's Snowy Hydro to build CC gas plant
Thoughts @simonahac @KetanJ0 @dylanjmcconnell ?
Do we even more gas plants?
"There is no strong case for more gas generation in the NEM given the current 4.4 GW of combined cycle and 7.0 GW of open cycle (peaking) gas generators are used well below their capacity factors" - @HughSaddler
@adamlmorton https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/08/expensive-and-underperforming-energy-audit-finds-gas-power-running-well-below-capacity
"There is no strong case for more gas generation in the NEM given the current 4.4 GW of combined cycle and 7.0 GW of open cycle (peaking) gas generators are used well below their capacity factors" - @HughSaddler
@adamlmorton https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/08/expensive-and-underperforming-energy-audit-finds-gas-power-running-well-below-capacity
Overnight BP's influential energy outlook came out
Gas outlook does not pay a transitional role under a net-zero by 2050 approach to climate change and only goes up if you ignore taking climate action.
HT @ntsafos
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html
Gas outlook does not pay a transitional role under a net-zero by 2050 approach to climate change and only goes up if you ignore taking climate action.
HT @ntsafos
https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/energy-outlook.html
