Opinion Editorials

Occasionally, the Senators and their staff will write articles, letters and other written pieces for publications around Australia and the world. You can read some of them here.

'Clean' energy target's rubbery figures

Opinion Editorial | Spokesperson Christine Milne
Monday 24th September 2007, 12:00am
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It's pleasing to see some critiques in today's media of Team Howard's decision to water down the MRET by including so-called 'clean coal' into a new 'Clean Energy Target'. But, as has been pointed out, even if it can be proven to work, 'clean coal' is too far away from commercialisation to make any real difference on a 2020 timeline.

A more pressing issue which hasn't as yet been noted is the rubberiness of the figures that the PM and Mr Turnbull have been bandying about.