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Anti-gas protesters fear Western Port wipeout
WITH the state government expected to soon announce its decision on AGL’s planned gas import terminal at Crib Point, protesters have been staging a series of demonstrations against the plan. Last week rallies were held near where the gas terminal will be built if given the go ahead, below, as well as outside Parliament House, in Spring Street, Melbourne.
Pictures: Julian Meehan
DRESS codes and parliamentary protocols were wiped out last Wednesday when a wave of demonstrators took their complaints about AGL’s plan for an import gas terminal at Crib Point to Spring Street.
A Japanese-Australian venture has begun producing hydrogen from brown coal in a 500 million Australian dollars ($390m) pilot project that aims to show liquefied hydrogen can be produced commercially and exported safely overseas.
The plan is to create the first international supply chain for liquefied hydrogen and the next big step will be to ship cargo on the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier.
“We have the potential here to be world leaders in the production and export of hydrogen and this project is developing up that technology to do exactly that,” Australian Energy Minister Angus Taylor told the Reuters news agency on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the event.
The plan is to create the first international supply chain for liquefied hydrogen and the next big step will be to ship a cargo on the world s first liquefied hydrogen carrier.
12 March 2021
Despite what federal energy minister Angus Taylor might have you believe, the announcement of the early closure of the Yallourn power station did not send the energy market into a panic. Nor should it mean the lights will go out, as many conservative commentators are claiming.
The certainty of a closure deadline and a commitment from EnergyAustralia to invest in a big battery project was largely commended, with both market participants and regulators exhibiting confidence that there will sufficient supplies of power in Victoria well into the future.
The Australian Energy Market Operator says there is about 19 gigawatts of new projects lined up as potential replacements.