MasterChef Australia fans being deceived by ‘renewable gas’ campaign, climate advocates tell watchdog

MasterChef Australia fans ‘are being deceived into thinking that the gas used in the program is good for the planet’, climate campaigner Belinda Noble says. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

A climate communications group has asked the Australian consumer watchdog to investigate claims made about “renewable gas” by one of the sponsors of Network Ten’s MasterChef.

Comms Declare said it had filed a complaint with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission about the Australian Gas Networks’ partnership with the hit cooking show and its promotion of two developing products – “renewable” hydrogen and biomethane.