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LABOR UNITED ON EMISSIONS TARGET BUT SPLIT ON GAS Labor will go to the next federal election with an interim target to reduce carbon emissions amid a growing policy tussle over whether to back new gas production and gas-fired power stations, Labor energy spokesman Mark Butler said Australians should expect the party to reveal an update on the 2030 target it took to the last election, showing the path towards the bigger ambition of net zero emissions by 2050

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LABOR UNITED ON EMISSIONS TARGET BUT SPLIT ON GAS

Labor will go to the next federal election with an interim target to reduce carbon emissions amid a growing policy tussle over whether to back new gas production and gas-fired power stations, Labor energy spokesman Mark Butler said Australians should expect the party to reveal an update on the 2030 target it took to the last election, showing the path towards the bigger ambition of net zero emissions by 2050. But the proposal has divided the same of the Labor caucus at the same time a policy gulf emerges on whether to support new gas fields and power stations after the Morrison government this week promised a "gas-led recovery” from recession.

Mr. Butler said he and Labor leader Anthony Albanese were planning to outline an interim target on the path to 2050 and update the policy from the last election when Labor said it would cut emissions by 45 percent by 2030 on 2005 levels. "You can't set a mid-century target and then check-in 2049 whether you're on track to meet it. No-one thinks that” Mr. Butler said. “Anthony and J have both said that we recognize the need for Australia to set medium-term targets consistent with the terms of the Paris climate agreement.

“There's an expectation that all countries would do that.” Labor resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon questioned the Need for an interim target when the economy was in recession. "Right now, aur thinking must be totally devoted to how a Labor government might rebuild a broken economy and save and create jobs,” Mr. Fitzgibbon said. "Right now, we can't afford to be spending too much time talking about how we might get to not zero emissions in 30 years' time, or, worse, what [the targets] might be in 10 of 15 years' time.

“Because that has the potential to undermine our economic growth and job security initiatives.”

 

Labor has accused Prime Minister Scott Morrison of failing to produce a system-wide energy policy and revealing a gas plan that will not create jobs quickly enough when the country is in recession At the same time, however, same Labor MPs have broken with the environmental movement by supporting the development of new pas fields and the construction of new gas-fired power stations.

 

“We've got to support the gas industry. It's less carbon-intensive than coal for a start, and it's crucial that we gat uficedable, reliable energy to industry and households," said Shayne Neumann, e Labor frontbencher and the member for Blair in Queensland. "That's the economic reality ~ if you want jobs you will support the gas industry."

Daniel Mulino, an economist and the member for Fraser in western Melbourne, said gas would have a role. for the long term.

 

There’s a whole lot of manufacturing that relies on gas for energy, and there's a lot of industry that relies on gas for feedstock, he said “We need to take that into account.”

Meryl Swansion, whose NSW electorate of Paterson includes the site of potential AGI, and Snowy HYDRO gas-fired power stations, said this week she would welcome the jobs from new power stations and gas pipelines.

Pat Conroy, who holds the electorate of Short land, said he was comfortable with a gas fired power station or with a new gas field going ahead near Narrabri in northern NSW, subject to environmental approvals that were yet to be decided. “We need to be increasing investment in the energy sector because it has fallen off a cliff in recent years,” said Mr. Conroy, who is also labor’s assistant spokesman on climate change. “And the cheapest form of new power is renewable energy made dispatchable by pumped hydro and batteries.

“Anyone who says that investing in new gas-fired power is the cheapest form of new power is flat-out wrong.

 

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