The Courier-Mail’s Renee Viellaris says Australia will 'still have a fire season” if all of the nation's coal fire generators are “shut down today'. Credlin
|The Courier-Mail’s Renee Viellaris says Australia will "still have a fire season” if all of the nation's coal fire generators are “shut down today". Ms Viellaris told Sky News that heavy industries such as Queensland’s aluminium factories “cannot operate” on renewables.
She also said industries “will go overseas” if Australia continues to “force” renewables upon them. If Australia doesn’t export Queensland’s “very good” thermal coal, China and India will “get it from Indonesia”, said Ms Viellaris. Ms Viellaris said that would result in an even worse "environmental outcome”. Image: News Corp Australia
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