 Our Premier John Brumby has been making some welcome announcements on climate change of late. Many of us have viewed the resulting positive press with some relief and hope but also with understandable scepticism given Mr Brumby's past advocacy in support of brown coal electricity producers - not to mention the whole brown coal export fiasco. For a nice summary have a look at this article by Taegan Edwards. More recently, there are new indications that the government is incapable of resisting brown coal dollars...
The proposed HRL coal-gas power station is a real indication of whether the plan to cut Victoria's emissions by 20% from 2000 levels by 2020 has any substance behind it. Read on to compare the Premier's press spin to an open letter from environmental organisations pointing out the painfully obvious.
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