Redirect funds from failed 'clean coal' project, environmentalists say
by Calla Wahlquist from Environment | The Guardian on (#3N5S4)
Campaigners say $90m should be used instead to help Latrobe Valley transition away from brown coal
A $90m fund set aside for failed "clean coal" projects in the Latrobe Valley should be spent on helping the region transition away from reliance on coal, Environment Victoria has said.
The Victorian government said this week that the Advanced Lignite Demonstration Program (ALDP) would be shut down after its third and final project to find a low-emissions use for the valley's enormous brown coal store was declared unsuccessful.
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