Today's bombshell that the leaked final report of the National Covid-19 Commission recommended propping up dying and climate-wrecking gas projects including the controversial and highly uncertain Narrabri Gas project must be the final nail in the coffin for this agenda (1/x)

It was only yesterday that EnergyAustralia boss Catherine Tanna, whose company has a 20% in Narrabri gas, was kicked off the re-branded NCC due to a conflict of interest, but this turns out to be a charade since the report was finished over a month ago (2/x)

Let's be clear: the oversupply crisis in the gas industry is so severe that they are running out of storage for unwanted gas, with BILLIONS written off project in recent months, even before Covid-19. Wasting public money on this industry would be as effective as burning it (3/x)

The controversial Narrabri gas project has not been approved, with the independent panel assessing it having called in regulators to explain critical defects in groundwater assessments and the lack of detail on how to deal with an aircraft hanger worth of produced salt (4/x)

Despite Australia now being the world's largest LNG exporter, the gas industry is the smallest by employment: the industry invests far more in machines and infrastructure than people, and it cannot lift us out of economic crisis (5/x)

Everybody knows that the world is moving towards renewable energy and storage: relying on an industry in decline would be like continuing CPR on a motionless corpse - the winners in economic recovery will focus on future-proof jobs (6/x)

This is not remotely controversial: everyone from Greenpeace to industry analysts to manufacturing unions to the Australian Industry Group, to the anti-science IPA and even the gas lobby agrees that picking winners in the gas industry to waste public money on is a daft idea (7/x)

If the NCC's leaked reports are supposed to plan the critical recovery from Covid-19, it would be nice if perhaps the rest of us simple folk could have a look at what they're up to behind closed doors - this process is more suited to a tinpot dictatorship than a democracy (8/x)

Even better: let's have an open and participatory process guided by experts, with independence, transparency and accountability rather than the thoroughly discredited NCC, whose conflicted advice should be rejected out of hand by the Federal Government (9/x)

The Morrison Government should reject the calls for gas subsidies from the hand-picked, unaccountable, fossil fuel stacked NCCC and invest in clean energy and modern manufacturing instead (10/10 - end of thread)