Under the Queensland Government's revised climate change strategy, ClimateQ: toward a greener Queensland, the government has revised the conditions for new coal-fired electricity generation.

No new coal-fired power station will be approved in Queensland unless:

• it uses world's best practice low emission technology in order to achieve the lowest possible levels of emissions
• it is carbon capture and storage (CCS) ready and will retrofit that technology within five years of CCS being proven on a commercial scale.

This initiative complements and extends the significant investment that the Queensland Government has made in accelerating the development and commercial deployment of low emission coal technology. For more information, download the Conditions for new coal-fired electricity generation fact sheet.

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