Friday 2/11/2007 Page: 13
Science broadcaster and NSW Senate candidate Karl Kruszelnicki has likened talk of clean coal to Nazi propaganda, describing it as a "complete furphy." The celebrity science commentator and Climate Change Coalition candidate yesterday said the major political parties were lying when spruiking the benefits of clean coal technology.Claims carbon dioxide could be removed from burning coal and stored underground or underwater were a lie, he said. "It is simply a furphy, it's a porky pie to cover up the fact there is no such thing as clean coal. It was the kind of lie a Nazi propagandist would conceive," he said.
Dr Kruszelnicki's running mate, Patrice Newell, challenged suggestions the coal industry would suffer major job losses if Australia made a dramatic switch to renewable energy sources. "I know that for a fact that they would be quite happy to have a job in the renewable industry," said Ms Newell, a resident of the Hunter coal mining region.
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