We have put together a list of readings on the potential impacts of the proposed gas recovery on our climate, health and economy to help keep us informed throughout this campaign.
- Scott Morrison’s gas plan is an arrogant, irresponsible disaster | John Hewson | 17 September 2020
- Gas plan locks in decades of high emissions, experts warn | The Saturday Paper | 19 September 2020 (paywalled)
- Gas Fired Backfire: Why a “gas fired recovery” would increase emissions and energy costs and squander our recovery spending | Mark Ogge – The Australia Institute | July 2020
- Morrison to back construction of new gas-fired power station | The Age | 15 September 2020
- Morrison government threatens to use Snowy Hydro to build gas generator, as it outlines ‘gas-fired recovery’ plan | The Conversation | 15 September 2020
- Morrison casts dark shadow over energy transition with massive gas intervention | Renew Economy | 15 September 2020
- Gas is not a transition fuel to a safe climate. That ship has sailed | Penny Sackett – The Age | 26 August 2020
- Emissions of methane – a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide – are rising dangerously | The Conversation | July 2020
- Santos’ Narrabri Gas Project seeks approval for 850 CSG wells in northwest NSW | ECHO | 30 June 2020
- The Battle of Narrabri may well decide our climate future | Pearls and Irritations | 4 September 2020
- People Power Needed | Stop Adani Macnamara | July 2020
- Time to dig out corruption in the resource industry | SMH | 8 December 2019
- Methane Leakage Makes Australia A World Leading Per Capita Greenhouse Gas Polluter | Counter Currents | February 2020
- 10 Reasons Why the Burrup Hub Should Not Go Ahead | Clean State | February 2020
- Gas companies say they are working with Covid commission and expect federal support soon | The Guardian | 30 August 2020
- Australia’s Chief Scientist is wrong on gas, say leading experts | SMH | 25 August 2020
- Gas Lies: Santos tries to ram through coal seam gas at Narrabri with fake claims | Michael West Media | 31 August 2020
- Batteries or gas? The jury is out, for now | The Land | 21 August 2020
- Mineral Council’s coal-focused economic plan madness says Lock the Gate | Lock the Gate Alliance | 27 August 2020
- Media release: Australia’s peak medical groups unite for a climate-focussed healthy recovery from COVID-19 | Doctors for the Environment Australia | 11 August 2020
- ‘There won’t be a vaccine’: Calls to address climate change | The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners | 14 August 2020
- The implications for human health and wellbeing of expanding gas mining in
Australia | Doctors for the Environment Australia | 2018 - The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: Australian policy inaction threatens lives | Australian Medical Journal | 29 November 2018
- The rural health impacts of climate change | The National Rural Health Alliance | 27 September 2019
- Australia needs policy to deal with health effects of climate change, Chris Bowen says | The Guardian | 20 November 2019
- Heat waves and the mentally ill | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | 19 February 2016
- Government to use $52.9m funding to unlock more gas for domestic market | The Guardian |15 September 2020
- The party of the free market is killing investment | Crikey | 16 September 2020
- Hopes of a gas boom fizzle | The Saturday Paper | August 2020 (pay-walled)
- Gas Cannot Stimulate the Economy, Reduce Emissions, or Provide Cheap Power | IEEFA | June 2020
- AEMO says batteries will be cheaper and cleaner than new gas plants | Renew Economy | 30 July 2020
- Government’s COVID Commission manufacturing plan calls for huge public gas subsidies | ABC News | 21 May 2020
- Is the Gas Industry Facing Its Volkswagen Moment? | IEEFA | March 2020
- LISTEN: Economists caution Commonwealth on proposal to underwrite gas pipeline investments| ABC PM | 7 September 2020
- Phasing out gas would benefit Australian manufacturers and households | Richard Denniss – The Guardian | 3 September 2020
- Morrison is not a Leader | The AIM | 24 August 2020
- Clean Energy Finance Corporation Amendment (Grid Reliability Fund) Bill 2020 Second Reading | Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction | 27 August 2020
- ‘Orwellian’: Coalition accused of planning to open green bank to fossil fuel investments | The Guardian | 28 August 2020
- Australia is about to get ripped off by the gas industry, and it’s not the first time | The Canberra Times | 22 August 2020