Snowy a better way to build green hydrogen than handouts to billionaires

The Greens say they do not trust the government to deliver green hydrogen instead of toxic methane, and that there are better ways to turn Australia into a green hydrogen superpower than handouts to billionaires. 

Energy Minister, Angus Taylor, announced a $30 million dollar taxpayer funded grant for a new methane gas-fired power plant.

World leaders will meet in Glasgow in less than a month and ending fossil fuel subsidies will be one of the top goals for most nations at the COP summit. 

Quotes attributable to Greens Leader, Adam Bandt MP:

“The Greens’ preferred approach is to get Snowy Hydro to ditch the Kurri Kurri gas plant and expand into batteries and green hydrogen instead. We’ve got a publicly owned electricity generator and we should grow it.

“If the government wants to support construction of green hydrogen plants, it should do so through Snowy instead of more ‘no-strings attached’ grants to billionaires.

“We're dubious about giving public money to something the government is selling as a way to burn more toxic methane.

“Unless there’s a watertight guarantee that this money will go to green hydrogen, we reserve the right to disallow it.

“The JobKeeper rorts show this government has a terrible record of giving out public money to billionaires with no strings attached."