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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Peter Hannam Economics correspondent

Greens could sink Labor’s gas industry scheme over concerns it supports fossil fuel expansion

Greens leader Adam Bandt at a press conference at Parliament House
Adam Bandt says the Greens ‘will do whatever we can to stop Labor opening more coal and gas’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The Albanese government’s mandatory code for the gas industry could be at risk, with the Greens vowing to disallow the scheme because it supports new gasfields even as the climate crisis worsens.

The Greens will move a disallowance vote in the Senate next Monday, saying the code with its $12 a gigajoule price cap had benefited big gas users. Uncontracted supplies of the fossil fuel had also been diverted to the domestic market.

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