The future of Australia’s dirtiest habit, coal-fired power, was laid out in stark detail in a report on Tuesday, and instantly spawned a mass of confused and contradictory interpretations.
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| Coal-fired power stations will be with us for a while yet. |
Coal-lovers interpreted it as proof that coal has a long future in Australia. Environmentalists claimed it sounded the death knell for the most carbon-heavy of all the fossil fuels.
Others read it as a pragmatic solution to a thorny issue.
But what did it really say? On one point the report, by the Australian Energy Market Operator, was unequivocal: ultimately coal will disappear from the Australian energy mix.
Read the story from The New Daily by James Fernyhough - “Is coal dying? Deciphering the new AEMO report.”
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