Exclusive: The boss of Australia's oldest union is warning Labor will kill off blue-collar jobs and any chance of winning government if it does not embrace gas | rharris334
who say his support for gas is "not consistent with a safe climate".
The right-wing union, one of the founding parties of Australian Labor Party, represents a large and diverse workforce across a broad range of industries. It has been a vocal supporter of new gasfield development to aid the manufacturing sector.On Thursday Mr Butler repeated his statement that Australia would not be able to base its prosperity entirely on fossil fuels in the way it did in the 20th century.
"But gas is a critically important part of our economy and society here in Australia," Mr Butler told Sky News Australia. , with some MPs breaking from the party's grassroots environmental movement, known as LEAN, by supporting the development of new gas fields and the construction of new gas-fired power stations.
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