The Albanese government’s green hydrogen project in Newcastle could see carbon abatement cost up to 40 times the market price with no guarantee of lower emissions.

3AW Breakfast host Mark Allen could not believe the government still planned to go ahead with the publicly funded project.

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“Why the hell would we do it? … I just don’t get it,” he said.

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