Labor says it will reach 50% renewable energy regardless of PM's guarantee

The shadow climate change minister, Mark Butler, says if state governments don’t veto the Turnbull government’s national energy guarantee, and if the policy passes into law, Labor will ramp up the level of emissions reduction in the event it wins the next federal election.

Mark Butler and the opposition leader, Bill Shorten.
Butler says Labor has been ‘crystal clear’ on energy policy. 

Butler says Labor has been “crystal clear” in discussions with industry stakeholders, and with state governments, that it will use any mechanism, either one of its own, or one it inherits, to drive 50% renewable energy by 2030.

In an interview with Guardian Australia’s Politics Live podcast, Butler says it is not relevant at the moment whether federal Labor supports or opposes the government’s new national energy guarantee, because the Turnbull government will not be in a position to implement it if the states veto it.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story on The Guardian - “Labor says it will reach 50% renewable energy regardless of PM's guarantee.”