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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent

‘The transition should NOT be slowed down’: energy story in The Australian wrongfooted by mining giant

Glencore's Mount Owen coal mine site in Ravensworth, NSW
Glencore's Mount Owen coalmine in NSW. The company has said the planet ‘must move to zero/low carbon energy’ but coal would ‘[allow] the time and space for an orderly energy transition’. Photograph: Loren Elliott/Reuters

One of the world’s biggest mining companies said it had not called on the Albanese government to slow down the shift from coal to renewables, contradicting a page one story in The Australian claiming it had.

On Monday, The Australian wrote that the Swiss-based multinational Glencore had “urged the Albanese government to slow down the transition from coal to renewables” in what was described as an “intervention” by the company’s chief executive, Gary Nagle.

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