A massive expansion of the Territory’s gas industry in the Beetaloo Basin and at the proposed Middle Arm industrial precinct could emit more than a billion tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the next 25 years, casting doubts on the NT Labor Government’s pledge to achieve its net zero emissions target by 2050, climate experts have said.
Climate scientist and chief executive of Climate Analytics Dr Bill Hare said the gas industry had substantially underestimated the emissions the projects would create in the NT, despite Chief Minister Eva Lawler’s claims that the Territory was “absolutely” on track to meet its 2050 target.
Why do you listen to this codswallop? The NT and Australia are already at better than net zero, just the increase in vegetation density ensures that. Take horticulture, the whole industry is based on consuming CO2 to grow food, In Agriculture, every hectare of grain consumes ten tonnes of CO2. Cattle consume herbage that would otherwise burn or rot producing gases, instead it is consumed by cattle that produce twelve and a half tons of carbon rich dung that is combined in the soil and so it goes. Too many people are living off this scam, get them to produce their calculations in fine detail.
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NT labor has a zero by 2050 target,
but no short term target;
no date by which emissions will stop growing and begin dropping;
and no public projections.
A target with no plan – just a date beyond any politician’s retirement – is a lie.