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Plibersek defends approval of coal seam gas wells in Queensland
Plibersek is denying that the amount of renewables being approved is still dwarfed by fossil fuel approvals.
That is a 1.3% increase in size on a project that’s been there for eight years. So it’s an eight-year old project that’s been increased in size by 1.3%.
So I think it’s a bit disingenuous of critics to be focusing on one project increasing in size by 1.3%, and ignoring the fact that we’ve had a massive increase in businesses wanting to invest in renewable Australia and a government that is responding by efficiently making those approvals so we can see more renewable energy into our homes and businesses.
We’re getting rid of the brown tape – the negativity, the delay, the denial that the previous government applied when they were looking at renewable energy projects and the evidence is that we’ve more than doubled them.
We’ve approved 11 renewable energy projects in the 10 months since coming to government and the comparison period, under the previous government, was five so we’ve more than doubled.
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