Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) 25 leading Australian scientists have just unanimously stated that there is no new role for gas and that 'existing and planned fossil fuel infrastructure is more than sufficient to push the world past 2°C, pushing the Paris Agreement's temperature goals well out of reach',

  (ii) the Chief Scientist's response to the scientists states that he is not advocating 'an expanded role of natural gas for industry' and that 'any residual role of gas-fired generators be ultimately met by fuelling them from clean hydrogen', and

  (iii) the Australian Energy Market Operator's advice on our future energy grid states that 'based on cost assumptions, new batteries are more cost-effective than gas-powered generation…when significant investment in new dispatchable capacity is needed'; and

(b) therefore urges the Government to act on the science and scrap its so-called 'gas-led recovery'.