Video: Future Gas Strategy with Richard Denniss
It’s hard to believe in 2024 we still have Governments pretending we need to expand fossil fuel production to “help tackle climate change”.
The Government’s Future Gas Strategy is a future climate disaster.
Richard Denniss explains the problems with the Government’s new Future Gas Strategy to help you wade through the spin.
This is a plan to expand the industry that’s causing climate change, and we’re greenwashing it and calling it a solution.
It’s sick.
— Richard Denniss, Executive Director of the Australia Institute.
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