Queensland's reliance on coal is back on the agenda and conservationists are firing up

The Liberal National party's reluctance to say how it would meet the state's emissions reduction targets while backing coal-fired power has become an election issueGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Two years ago, former US vice-president and climate change campaigner Al Gore took to a pre-Elon Musk Twitter to congratulate Queensland for plotting a route to get the state off coal-fired power by the end of the next decade.If this was possible in a state with "one of the most carbon intensive energy supplies" anywhere, Gore wrote, then "we need to see action like this around the world". Continue reading...