“Victorian households are already struggling with high gas prices, and this adds urgency to the need to get off gas as quickly as possible,” said Environment Victoria chief executive Jono La Nauze.
Closing Victoria’s coal-fired power stations by 2035 will not reduce greenhouse gases enough to meet the state’s ambitious new emissions targets, with environmentalists urging the Andrews government to reduce gas use.
“Victorian households are already struggling with high gas prices, and this adds urgency to the need to get off gas as quickly as possible.”, the Andrews government announced a more ambitious emission reduction target of between 75 and 80 per cent by 2035, saying the state would completely end coal-burning power generation by 2035.
The proposed $250 million Crib Point floating gas terminal that was rejected on environmental grounds. There are new gas projects proposed for Victoria. Viva Energy, owner of the Geelong oil refinery and Australia’s Shell and Liberty petrol stations, is awaiting environmental approval for its plan to extend a pier at the refinery site and park a floating vessel that holds super-chilled liquefied natural gas and turn it back into vapour for Victorian homes and businesses.
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