Frydenberg on Sunday used an interview on Sky News to smack down comments by the former resources minister Matt Canavan characterising renewables as a short-term sugar hit. A motion passed by Nationals at their weekend federal conference called for subsidies for renewables to be phased out within five years. 'The lift will stop': Barnaby Joyce tells Nationals coal power can't be ignored Read moreBut the energy minister said renewables were not a “short-term sugar hit”. He said people trying to shut down the ageing power plant had “a vested interest in talking down what the viability of it might be”. The government is yet to decide whether it will adopt the central recommendation of the Finkel review of the national electricity market – a new clean energy target.

Source: The Guardian September 10, 2017 04:52 UTC