PARTY ROOM DIVISIONS RAMP UP OVER NEG

MARK BUTLER MP.
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PARTY ROOM DIVISIONS RAMP UP OVER NEG
MARK BUTLER MP
In the latest sign of the Coalition’s division and chaos over energy policy, the Prime Minister has incorrectly claimed his party room has signed off on the NEG.
 Once again the Chair of the Coalition’s backbench committee on climate and energy, Craig Kelly, has shot a clear warning to Malcolm Turnbull and Josh Frydenberg that the NEG does not have support, telling The Guardian “realistically we would need more time to consider this,” and “there is a lot of complex detail yet to be released.”
Completely trashing the Prime Minister’s claim yesterday that the NEG has “been endorsed by the party room already and will be endorsed again.” 
Federal Labor has been consistently supportive and constructive over energy policy, offering bipartisan support for an investment framework that would deliver investor certainty and start to bring an end to the energy crisis that has emerged under Malcolm Turnbull and seen power bills skyrocket for Australian households and business. 
We know that the surest way to bring down power prices is to build more renewable energy, but under Malcolm Turnbull’s pathetic emissions reduction targets the NEG will not see one large-scale renewable energy project built for the entirety of the 2020s, stifling investment and pushing power prices up. 
As more Liberal and National members come out to criticise the NEG, the states and territories are absolutely being proven right to demand to see how Malcolm Turnbull will compromise to appease the hard-right of his party room on Tuesday.
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