Bowen defends need for future gas supply as Labor pushes Greens

under Labor’s cornerstone heavy emissions policy, declaring there will be a vital need for additional gas in coming years.

The minister’s vigorous defence of the need for additional gas supply echoes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese remarks atthat the fuel and industrial feedstock must play a key role in the transition to clean energy. “We receive criticism from the left and the right,” he says. “But we continue with alacrity because this middle way is the right way.”Mr Bowen urged the Greens and Senate crossbench to support the safeguard mechanism legislation, which would allow 215 of the biggest industrial, resources and manufacturing facilities to create and trade carbon offsets as they adopt technology to beat their requirement to cut emissions by 4.9 per cent a year.

Too late mate…nobody will invest now in a socialist state.

That’s odd a few weeks ago he was telling us how terrible, outdated and dirty fossil fuels were.

This bloke has been sold a pup buy the green public service, and is finding the truth a bitter pill to swallow. Like the treasurer, he will find there is a bus coming.

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