Deputy prime minister made comments in coal community of Gladstone in Queensland as Scott Morrison makes $300m NT energy and jobs announcement
Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says the Coalition won’t use the term ‘transition’ because ‘there is no other industry here’.Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce says the Coalition won’t use the term ‘transition’ because ‘there is no other industry here’.believes a “transition” from coal to cleaner energy “equals unemployment” in the regions, declaring the Coalition would not use the term during the election.
In a statement, Morrison said the Coalition wanted to further the NT’s status as a “world leader in energy”, and claimed the funding would create 3,800 jobs. Labor frontbenchers Penny Wong and Mark Butler, standing in for Covid-afflicted leader Anthony Albanese, will also be in Alice Springs on Sunday to make a health announcement.
“We are standing by the jobs they’ve got and we’re investing billions towards hydrogen but we’re not going to be saying to people the word ‘transition’ because that equals unemployment,” Joyce said. Finance Corporation to make coal cleaner, to make coal more energy efficient, yes, that is certainly something we’d be considering,” Joyce said.
He said Labor was supportive of hydrogen and clean energy projects in regional areas, but that the opposition did support new coal projects if they passed environmental approval processes.
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