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Anyone who thinks the current Federal LNP Government is a friend of the Green Hydrogen Industry is living in lala land....

“Clearly unacceptable:” Morrison government blocks massive Pilbara renewable hydrogen hub.

"The Morrison government has rejected plans to build a massive renewable hydrogen hub, including up to 26GW of wind and solar generation capacity in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, after declaring the project’s environmental impacts were “clearly unacceptable.”Federal environment minister Sussan Ley said in the notice that the $50 billion plan to develop the so-called Asian Renewable Energy Hub roughly 220km east of Port Hedland would have “clearly unacceptable impacts” on matters protected by the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.The rejection of the Hub, which has been proposed for development by a consortium that includes Intercontinental Energy, Australia’s CWP Global, Pathway Investments and turbine manufacturer Vestas, comes despite it being given ‘major project status’ by the federal government in October of last year.And it has major implications for the rest of Australia’s nascent renewable hydrogen industry which, as RenewEconomy recently reported, currently includes a pipeline 35 electrolyser projects with a collective potential renewable generation capacity of 38GW, according to new research by Rystad Energy."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/clearly-unacceptable-morrison-government-blocks-massive-pilbara-renewable-hydrogen-hub/