Craig Kelly was careful when responding to the latest inducement being offered to the states to secure the National Energy Guarantee. Understandable after his disastrous "let bygones be bygones" apologia for Donald Trump's Russia appeasement.
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| Liberal MP Craig Kelly has been an outspoken critic of emission reductions. |
But the conservative backbencher, as one of the party room's most vocal coal spruikers, could disguise his grievance over the Turnbull cabinet's creeping environmentalism, only so well.
Asked during his regular Sky News spot about the "olive branch" now being extended by Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg to the states - an offer of a five-year review of the emissions reduction target (rather than locking it in for 10), Kelly was initially circumspect. "Well I'd imagine if you had a [target] review, you could also downscale it as well." Clearly this was said more in hope than belief.
Read the analysis by Mark Kenny from The Age - “Truce in sight on climate wars but what price peace for the PM?”
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