Ministers receive joint letter signed by 25 backbenchers saying immunity for the industry would not jeopardise the RET
Nearly half of the Coalition’s backbenchers in the lower house have called on the Abbott government to grant the aluminium industry a full exemption from the renewable energy target (RET).
The letter understood to have been signed by 25 Coalition lower house MPs argued the government could exempt aluminium smelting and still achieve a true 20% renewable energy usage target by 2020.