AU - Dirty coal goes clean in the budget

[Denny Tyler]

There was, however, big dollars for the development of "clean coal technology", and certainly we need to look for this as part of the mix of solutions.  But like oil and gas, coal is an industry in it's sunset era - these energy sources use technologies that served us well, but now belong to the industrial era, not the new energy era that is emerging.  And we could use the high export  profits from these  industries to position Australia for the future.

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