News Corp claims coal and gas moratorium would be a revenue ‘black hole’. How much would it really cost?

Grattan Institute energy experts say News Corp's eye-watering figures on the projected costs and job losses of an improbable moratorium are inflated'

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Would a moratorium on new coal and gas projects - even one with almost no chance of actually happening - really cost Queensland $85bn and shaft" New South Wales to the tune of $19bn?

These were the eye-watering claims made in two stories in News Corp Australia mastheads in Brisbane and Sydney on the same day last week.