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MCA attacks Snowy 2.0 and spruiks coal as "dispatchable"

THE Minerals Council of Australia has again lashed Snowy 2.0 and come out hard in favour of coal-fired power which kept "generation kept lights and air conditioners on and kept businesses running in Australia during the past summer". 

MCA attacks Snowy 2.0 and spruiks coal as "dispatchable"

The MCA was responding to Snowy Hydro chief executive Paul Broad's claims that the proposed hydropower upgrade can out-compete any coal plant.    Snowy 2.0 has been something of a pet project for the...

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