Net Zero Target Not ‘Zero-Sum Game’ for Mining Jobs: Premier Palaszczuk

Net Zero Target Not ‘Zero-Sum Game’ for Mining Jobs: Premier Palaszczuk
The Alcan Gove bauxite mine and alumina processing plant is the largest industrial undertaking in the Northern Territory, Australia on Dec. 3, 2005. Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty Images
Caden Pearson
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Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said investment and support will continue to flow into her state’s mining industry despite Australia’s commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Global decarbonisation ambitions, recently the focus of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, did not mean a “zero-sum game” for the resources extraction industry in mineral-rich Queensland, the premier told the Queensland Resources Council event on Wednesday, News.com.au reported.

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