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The next fortnight will determine whether the proposed safeguard mechanism, which requires Australia’s 215 biggest industrial plants to make deeper emissions cuts from July 1, will pass or fail.Alex Ellinghausen
“Secondly, we’ve already shifted a lot and have been clear that although we would like to see a phase out of coal, it’s in the system already, we want to see much stronger targets that mean we might have a chance of saving the Great Barrier Reef, and that we’d rather not use Tony Abbott’s reheated mechanism. We’ve said we’re prepared to put all of those concerns aside and support the bill.
“Now the government has said they want to keep opening new coal and gas mines. They haven’t put forward a convincing justification for that. We don’t need them to power our economy, and it’s going to be harmful, it’s going to put a safer climate beyond reach.
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