Here we go again—Blackout Bowen and his taxpayer-funded climate circus have rolled back into the Hunter like a band of door-to-door salesmen flogging solar panels to coal towns. This time, they’ve brought along their fellow green missionaries—MP Pat Conroy and MP Sharon Claydon—to bless us locals with yet another round of corporate welfare disguised as “green innovation.”
The latest handout? $424 Million of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars gifted to chemical giant Orica to build a so-called “green hydrogen hub.” You heard that right—a multinational corporation, already making fat profits, is now being handed public funds in the name of saving the planet. Meanwhile, you’re paying more just to keep the lights on.
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