Australian energy ministers to consider renaming natural gas to ‘fossil gas’ in law
by Peter Hannam from Environment | The Guardian on (#6CRMF)
Meeting to discuss updating national gas law to reflect fuel's environmental impact as well as overhauling hydrogen strategy
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Australian energy ministers meeting on Friday will discuss an overhaul of the country's hydrogen strategy, the treatment of emissions from the Beetaloo gas field and whether to change the treatment of natural gas" in the national gas law.
The ACT energy minister, Shane Rattenbury, will propose the gas law be updated to replace natural gas" with fossil gas" or methane" to more accurately reflect the environmental impact of the fuel.
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