‘Reckless’ Coalition energy policy would upend innovation pipeline


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

The opposition’s net zero-less energy plan would upend Australia’s energy innovation agency and green bank so they could fund controversial technologies favoured by the conservative party like carbon capture and nuclear.

The re-writing of the entities’ investment mandates is part of what would be radical changes on climate policy under a Coalition government’s “affordable and responsible” energy plan.

Agreed to on Sunday in a special party room meeting, the policy …

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