Coalminers union chief Tony Maher today told Greg Combet the Rudd Government had got it wrong on coal mine greenhouse gas emissions, but also warned the coal industry to 'stop the scare campaign on jobs'.
A Coalition Government would use policy measures the Rudd Government 'has largely ignored', along with renewable energy and carbon capture and storage projects, to reduce Australia's net CO2 emissions by an extra 150 million tonnes a year, Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull said on the weekend.
Mining union leader Tony Maher says Poznan's failure to agree that CCS projects should be able to generate carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol is only a temporary setback. Meanwhile, AIGN chief Michael Hitchens defends Australia's performance at the talks and the decision not to release targets.