Liberal MP Craig Kelly calls Frydenberg emissions deal a 'double-edged sword’

Dissident Liberal MP Craig Kelly has declared the energy minister, Josh Frydenberg, is taking a risk by offering the states a review of the government’s proposed emissions reduction target for electricity.

Minister told states target could be reviewed,
 but backbencher warns they may not like the result.

With the national energy guarantee heading for a make-or-break meeting in early August, Frydenberg this week offered an olive branch, telling state energy ministers the Neg’s 26% emissions target could be reviewed in 2024 – four years after it is due to be implemented – stepping back from an ambit claim that it be locked in for a decade.

Kelly, the chairman of the government’s backbench energy and environment committee, says this could lead to the target being lowered rather than delivering what several states want, which is an increase in ambition.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story from The Guardian - “Liberal MP Craig Kelly calls Frydenberg emissions deal a 'double-edged sword’.”