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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Adam Morton Climate and environment editor

Coalition pledge to subsidise Australia’s most expensive form of energy makes ‘no sense’, Labor says

Safety flare towers at a gas plant
The opposition’s climate change and energy spokesman, Ted O’Brien, says gas would be ‘here to stay’ under the Coalition. Photograph: Greg Wood/AFP/Getty Images

Labor says a Coalition pledge to offer subsidies to existing and new gas power plants makes “no sense” and would ensure fossil fuel plants that are already in the grid receive windfall gains.

In a speech to an Australian Pipelines and Gas Association Convention in Adelaide, the opposition’s climate change and energy spokesperson, Ted O’Brien, said that gas would be “here to stay” under the Coalition.

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