Brown coal: counting the cost of burning mud  

Michael Pascoe at the SMH has a look at the rapid increase in carbon emissions from Victoria's brown coal power plants (dubbed "museum pieces" by visiting Chinese engineers) since the scrapping of the carbon tax - Brown coal: counting the cost of burning mud. Apparently the state government is now looking to impose it's own coal tax to replace the national carbon tax which might help cap emissions while we wait for these antiquities to be closed down.