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title: Labor backflips on Hunter gas power station
description: Anthony Albanese has declared Labor will support a taxpayer-funded power station in the Hunter Valley but only if the proposed white elephant can run on green hydrogen instead of gas by 2030.
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# Labor backflips on Hunter gas power station
Tuesday, 1 February 2022
With one eye to coal communities and another to his party’s mediocre environmental credentials, Anthony Albanese has declared Labor will support a taxpayer-funded power station in the Hunter Valley but only if the proposed white elephant can run on green hydrogen instead of gas by 2030.
Coalminer Peabody Energy has been routinely misreporting its greenhouse gas emissions to regulators, raising questions about the accuracy of national climate data based on figures industry-reported figures.
And state-based schemes have led to a tripling of new electric vehicle sales but they still only make up around two percent of total new car sales in Australia.
[Labor to support $600m Kurri Kurri power plant but only if it runs on green hydrogen by 2030](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jan/31/labor-to-support-600m-kurri-kurri-power-plant-but-only-if-it-runs-on-green-hydrogen-by-2030)
Federal Labor says Snowy Hydro could proceed with building a new power plant in the Hunter Valley if it wins the upcoming election – but insists the plant should be powered entirely by green hydrogen, instead of gas, by 2030
[Australian regulator finds large-scale emissions misreporting by coalminer Peabody](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/31/australian-regulator-finds-large-scale-emissions-misreporting-by-coalminer-peabody)
US coalmining giant Peabody Energy has repeatedly submitted incorrect greenhouse gas emissions reports to the Australian government, prompting questions about the reliability of national climate data based on company assessments.
[New electric vehicle sales triple in Australia with Tesla outstripping other makers](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/31/new-electric-vehicle-sales-triple-in-australia-with-tesla-outstripping-other-makers)
The number of new electric vehicles in Australia has tripled after years of lagging sales, off the back of incentives introduced by state governments to support their uptake.
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