Climate campaigners condemn 'insidious' cocktail party for MPs and coal industry

Environmental campaigners say a cocktail night involving the fossil fuel industry and federal politicians represents an “insidious” lobbying effort to undermine climate action.

Pro-coal Liberal MP Craig Kelly, pictured, and Labor’s Joel
 Fitzgibbon have hosted a cocktail event to discuss carbon capture
and storage with industry leaders.

The pro-coal Liberal MP Craig Kelly and Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon hosted a cocktail event at Parliament House to discuss carbon capture and storage with industry leaders on Wednesday night.

An invite seen by the Guardian was sent out by Kelly and Fitzgibbon, who chair the parliamentary friends of resources, together with representatives of Santos and the carbon capture body CO2CRC. The event is described as a “cocktail event to mark the inaugural meeting of the CO2CRC Carbon Capture and Storage Policy Forum”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Christopher Knaus - “Climate campaigners condemn 'insidious' cocktail party for MPs and coal industry.”