Greens Senator Nick McKim has broken ranks with the climate lobby to call out their behaviour during negotiations over the federal government’s safeguard mechanism.
McKim, the Economic Justice and Treasury spokesperson for the Greens said emissions reductions would be significantly less under the mechanism but negotiations were hampered by the climate lobby.
“Listening to senior figures in the enviro movement publicly regurgitating ALP speaking points while negotiations were at a critical stage was gutting. For the [Australian Conservation Fund (ACF)] to urge us to walk away from our demand for no new coal and gas at a crucial time was nothing less than culpable,” McKim wrote on Twitter….