Victoria toughens negotiating stance on national energy guarantee
by Katharine Murphy Political editor from on (#3WBYZ)
ACT offers compromise on emissions target in bid to end standoff with Turnbull government
The Australian Capital Territory has floated a compromise on setting an emissions reduction target in an attempt to break the current impasse on the national energy guarantee, as Victoria toughens its negotiating stance.
The Andrews government, after a cabinet deliberation on Monday, has now set four concrete conditions it says it wants met, which if insisted upon, could torpedo the national energy guarantee.
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