Labor's plan to green the Kurri Kurri gas power plant makes no sense

  • Written by: Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
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Is it possible to have your cake and eat it too? Federal Labor is certainly giving it a go by supporting government plans for a fossil gas/diesel peaking plant in the Hunter Valley currently under construction – as long as the plant switches to green hydrogen by 2030.

This is disappointing for three reasons.

One, we don’t...

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