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Labor’s renewables target doesn’t add up

The push for a 50 per cent renewable energy target is a fantasist’s pipe dream

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

It has long been the standard fare of green evangelists to prosecute their cause with persuasion by emotion rather than sticking to the facts at hand. Labor’s recent decision to opt for a 50 per cent renewable energy target by 2030 without undertaking any economic modelling is a case in point.

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