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The dangers of underestimating coal

18 September 2016

6:10 PM

18 September 2016

6:10 PM

According to research commissioned by The Australia Institute if we ban all new coalmines, allowing coal production to fall from 420 million tonnes annually to under 50 million tonnes, we would see a trivial 0.6 per cent fall in GDP. To arrive at such numbers TAI commissioned Victoria University to use a garbage-in-garbage-out analysis with fungible labour, capital and technology.

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