Gas exports fuel rise in greenhouse emissions
BUDDING newsreaders can grab a bonus limited-edition newspaper mini when they buy the Geelong Advertiser at any Coles supermarket this weekend.
Ella Anderson was keen to add the newspaper to her mini shopping basket, as part of the supermarket’s popular Little Shop 2 promotion.
Coles and Kidsnews.com.au are giving away the special 12page newspaper mini, which includes stories about flying cars, new planets and the highest motorbike backflip ever recorded.
A limit of one bonus newspaper mini applies for every newspaper bought, with a maximum of five minis a transaction, excluding Coles Online and Coles Express. AUSTRALIA’S gas exports are “good for the world” even though local greenhouse gas emissions are increasing because of them, the federal energy minister argues.
Australia’s greenhouse emissions have risen 0.6 per cent over the year to March mainly due to higher LNG exports, the latest figures show.
The quarterly update of Australia’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory released yesterday showed emissions had risen by 3.1 million tonnes to 538.9 megatonnes over the 12 months to March.
Electricity sector emissions fell by 2.1 per cent over the same period, largely because of a drop in brown coal and gas use and a rise in renewablesourced energy.
Emissions in agriculture have also decreased. But emissions in other sectors have increased, largely on the back of LNG exports, as well as steel and aluminium production.
The federal government has handed $60 million to Chevron’s massive Gorgon gas project off WA for it to reduce its emissions. Energy Minister Angus Taylor says the government is strongly encouraging all LNG projects to “do the right thing”.