The fake left at The Guardian is basically mad:
The Labor party’s national president, Wayne Swan, has criticised the Albanese government’s future gas strategy, opposing its encouragement of new gas fields and telling the party’s environment activists they should push for a plan to lessen domestic demand.
In an online address to the Labor Environment Action Network (Lean) on Tuesday night, Swan sympathised with the activists who were dismayed that the strategy, released a week before the budget and which frustrated some inner-city Labor MPs, emphasised a role for gas “to 2050 and beyond”.
“I know that people are disillusioned with that announcement,” he told the Lean members. “I felt your pain. I shared your disappointment with that announcement because it didn’t do justice to what the government has done or is planning to do.”
More:
Channel Ten has been accused of blurring the lines between news and advertising by running commercials for the natural gas industry that appear to be part of the network’s prime-time news bulletins.
Sources at the network told Guardian Australia that starting in March sponsored segments from gas lobbyists started running that were “made to look exactly the same as the headlines and using the 10 News sets”.
This was confirmed at the Senate greenwashing inquiry, when Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young asked Ten executives about the integration of gas sponsorship in the news, and why an ad for gas was “projected onto the news set, with the news straps and the logo underneath”.
Everybody knows I hate the East Coast gas cartel, but even I know that without gas, our economy will be subject to constant and permanent power price shocks and rationing.
AEMO has made this abundantly clear:
We need more gas-peaking power plants but we haven’t built one for ten years because there is no gas security of supply.
And note that the faster we get off coal, the more gas we will need, meaning that without it, there will only be more coal via secret state government deals!
Instead, all the gas is going to China:
The fake left’s crusade to kill gas is also going to kill the economy and its own renewables push via toxic politics; see Dutton’s nuclear push.
Reserve gas and put the energy transition back on track!
