The new “Queensland Energy Roadmap” is a nightmare. At the center of the plan is the brazen and unprecedented extension of 5 state-owned coal-fired energy stations, every by a few years previous their retirement dates and, implicitly, all past the yr 2050. It’s depicted within the report on this graphic:
Between 2021 and 2022, I tracked what was then a flurry of stories objects asserting the “early” closure of coal-fired energy stations earlier than their scheduled retirement dates. Each of those bulletins had been very vital, in that in closing years early, the coal vegetation would spew out considerably much less air pollution.
