THE AUSTRALIAN Coal Association (ACA) says that the coal industry wants to be treated the same as other big polluters under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
ACA executive director Ralph Hillman believes that the subsidies to be given to the coal industry under the scheme are not enough.
Hillman claims that the coal industry is a victim of really unfair and discriminatory treatment.
Hillman supports a scheme that would see the Australian public pay more money for the country’s greener future which he says would preserve the industry’s exports and jobs.
The ACA wants the coal industry to receive 60%-90% of its pollution permits for free — funded by the taxpayer, because that’s what the cement, aluminium and liquid natural gas industries have been promised.
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