Labor: no thanks, we’ll just dig it all up and ship it overseas with barely any royalties and then do some creative accounting with offsets that we know are bullshit anyway.
Why do we need to offset other countries coal use? They’re the ones buying it and burning it, not us.
In particular Indonesia:
Yet Indonesia added 1.9 GW of coal capacity in 2024, the third most in the world, behind China and India. Some 80% of this new capacity came from so-called captive coal plants, built specifically to serve industrial estates processing nickel, cobalt and aluminum for the booming electric vehicle market.
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/indonesia-defies-global-coal-retreat-with-captive-plant-boom/
How ironic.
Thanks for making Queensland look good I guess? Even our worst state is still doing better than them.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/AU-QLD/live/fifteen_minutes
