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Australia's Queensland reverses policy, pledges to keep using coal power (www.reuters.com)

submitted 1 year ago by schizoidman@lemmy.zip to c/climate@slrpnk.net

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Australia's Queensland state government said on Friday it would run coal power plants at least into the 2040s, reversing a previous plan to pivot rapidly to renewables

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, why use renewable energy when you can use a dirty finite resource that will almost certainly rise in price over their time horizon.

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