Brown coal to hydrogen? Tell Japan HESC no!
The Japanese Government is supporting an international consortium to use Victoria’s dirty brown coal to produce hydrogen for export. The Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) project is a climate disaster without a business case or social licence. Westernport’s Port of Hastings is a major part of the plan. Go here to read more and say NO!
Coal to Hydrogen Doesn’t Work
Jane from Save Westernport explains why Japan’s Coal-to-Hydrogen proposal is bad news for Victoria, and for our Climate.
Federal Minister Saves Westernport
On December 18, 2023, the Federal Minister for the Environment, Tanya Plibersek made an extraordinary decision to block the Victorian Government proposal to use Hastings and Westernport Bay as the staging post for building the wind turbines for the State’s proposed offshore windfarms in Gippsland. The decision was made in accord with the Environmental Protection Biodiversity & Conservation (EPBC) Act. Read more…
Feds, Citing Environmental Concerns, Reject Port of Hastings as Wind Farm Staging Area
“What makes this decision so incredible is that she [Tanya Plibersek, Federal minister for the Environment and Water] has done so using her powers under the EPBC Act where a proposal is so deleterious to the environment that it is ‘clearly unacceptable’ and can be rejected without any further examination.”
Read Save Westernport’s full response here
Save Westernport’s Media Release about the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain project
Save Westernport’s Media Release announced the debate on the Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain in the Victorian Upper House on November 15.
This first opportunity for public scrutiny was the result of a community petition with over 5000 signatures collected from people asking to have the matter heard. Read the release here… And more info here
Save Westernport’s OpEd in Michael West media: ‘HESC is Grotesque’
The jury remains out on hydrogen as commercial fuel. Yet a massive new fossil fuel project planned for Victoria’s Western Port Bay, to supply energy for Japan, is subsidised by state and federal governments, and continues the burning of brown coal read more