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Sky News host Peta Credlin says Labor has done one of its “first big backflips” of the campaign by saying it backs a project for a $600 million gas-fired power plant, after “getting stuck into the Morrison government” over it. The plant is to be built in Kurri Kurri in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley. Ms Credlin said on Tuesday morning Opposition leader Anthony Albanese announced Labor had changed its mind and would now support the gas plant, on the basis it runs on 100 per cent green hydrogen by the end of the decade. She said there are two points to make on this. “One, what an abject humiliation for Chris Bowen, standing there, today backing Kurri Kurri. "Less than a year ago he described the project as, and I quote, 'a cynical attempt to pick a fight on gas and continue the climate wars, or to reward the major Liberal donor who owns the Kurri Kurri site'. "Two – we're told the cost of producing so-called 'green hydrogen' could fall to as low as two dollars a kilo by the end of the decade. "The key word there being "could" - no doubt off the back of more taxpayer subsidies and concessions, but currently it's nine dollars a kilo. Coal, on the other hand, costs under three dollars a kilo - surely there's Labor MPs that can do the maths on that."
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