The Australian Greens want all new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants forced to sequester their greenhouse gas, claiming coal and gas projects proposed for Western Australia alone could almost double the state's annual emissions.Greens senator Scott Ludlam on Wednesday released his calculations of the emissions from new LNG plants and coal power stations proposed for his home state to 2016, as well as two big emitting iron ore projects.
The figures, sourced mostly from company data provided to the WA government, show the state's annual emissions of around 80 megatonnes would soar to almost double that if all the projects were approved.
Advertisement: Story continues below The proposed James Price Point hub alone would emit 32 million tonnes a year of greenhouse gases - equivalent to five per cent of Australia's current total greenhouse gas emissions, or New Zealand's entire annual greenhouse gas emissions, Senator Ludlam said.
Read article
No comments:
Post a Comment