States threaten to call off energy deal if renewables undermined

The Queensland and Victorian governments are hedging their bets about the Turnbull government’s national energy guarantee ahead of the circulation of key design details expected during the next 48 hours.

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk with the energy minister
 Anthony Lynham. He said the state would remain ‘resolute in our
commitment to a 50% renewable energy target by 2030’.

Queensland’s energy minister, Anthony Lynham, said on Thursday the state was still reviewing the stakeholder submissions to the Energy Security Board and “those submissions highlight that a lot of critical issues still need to be resolved”.

Lynham said Queensland was still considering whether or not to support the national energy guarantee, and the state would remain “resolute in our commitment to a 50% renewable energy target by 2030”.

Read Katherine Murphy’s story from The Guardian - “States threaten to call off energy deal if renewables undermined.”