Vic’s ‘crazy’ emissions targets are ‘off the reservation’

Angus Taylor is cautioning states from coming up with their own energy policy out of fear it will create investment uncertainty, undermine electricity reliability and push up power prices. The Energy Minister has told Sky News that Victoria’s talk of a 60 per cent emission reduction target wasn’t taken to the election, despite the government’s website saying, ‘Victoria's Climate Change Act 2017 establishes a long-term target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.’ ‘The Victorian Government needs to come clean on what its plan is and explain to the Victorian people why they are happy to undermine the reliability of their electricity system,’ Mr Taylor says. ‘They are having no impact on global emissions and global temperature; they’re too small to have an impact,’ he says. Image: David Geraghty / News Corp Australia

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