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Graph of the day: Narrabri gas field will wipe out most renewable emissions cuts – RenewEconomy
The NSW renewable energy plans could massively reduce emissions, but a federally-approved gas mine could cancel out at least half of that.
Australia’s emissions are trapped in a tense stand-off. As I wrote previously on RenewEconomy, while renewables are growing fast and cutting emissions, mining for fossil gas is growing just as fast, as is emissions from transport.
In the past few weeks, we can see this ‘tug of war’ playing out in real time. NSW announced a game-changing new climate policy, laying guide rails for the closure of coal and gas and the build-out of regional-powered renewable zones. But the gargantuan and controversial…
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