Plans for Chinese-backed coal-fired plant in NSW's Hunter Valley could reignite the climate wars

Chinese-backed plans to build a massive new coal-fired power plant in New South Wales are reopening hostilities in the so-called climate wars.

Plans to build a power plant in the Hunter Valley
have become a point of political contention.

The Greens say a "veritable army" is ready to stop the plant from being built.

But Coalition backbencher Craig Kelly calls the plan "fantastic" and is urging Prime Minister Scott Morrison to pour taxpayer subsidies into it.

"This is exactly what the market needs," Mr Kelly said, adding competition from the new plant would lower power prices.

"If the Government needs to underwrite it, if it needs a little bit of help, then that's what we should be doing.”

Read the ABC News story by Tom Iggulden and Amy Greenbank - “Plans for Chinese-backed coal-fired plant in NSW's Hunter Valley could reignite the climate wars.”