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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Ian Kirkwood

Power stations exempt from Labor's emissions safeguard scheme

Power stations, including Eraring, will not have to deal with the government's emissions reduction program, says Climate Change and Industry Minister Chris Bowen. Picture by Jonathan Carroll

THE electricity sector would not be part of a "Safeguard Mechanism" emissions reduction program announced earlier this week, a spokesperson for Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen confirmed.

The government had announced the plan as applying to more than 200 of the country's biggest greenhouse gas emitters - the list of which, as reported by the Newcastle Herald today - is top-heavy with electricity generators.

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