Queensland’s deadly new coal plan is not ‘pragmatic’

The new “Queensland Energy Roadmap” is a nightmare. At the heart of the plan is the brazen and unprecedented expansion of five state-owned coal-fired power plants, each of which is past its retirement date and implicitly extends beyond 2050. report in this chart:

Between 2021 and 2022 crawler At the time, it was a flurry of news stories announcing the “early” closure of coal-fired power plants before their planned retirement dates. Each of these announcements was crucial because coal plants would produce significantly less pollution if shut down years earlier.