The power struggle over Australia’s dirtiest energy company.

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Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has made a multi-billion dollar bid to buy energy company AGL - Australia’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter - and speed up its exit from coal. In response, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and AGL executives have warned this plan could raise electricity prices and cost jobs.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2022/feb/24/the-power-struggle-over-australias-dirtiest-energy-company

Laura Murphy-Oates speaks to Guardian Australia’s climate and environment editor, Adam Morton about this historic bid and what it says about Australia’s lack of planning for a cleaner future

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Presented by Laura Murphy-Oates, and reported by Adam Morton. Produced by Allison Chan, Jane Lee, Najma Sambul, Karishma Luthria and Daniel Semo who also did the sound design. Executive producers Miles Martignoni, Gabrielle Jackson and Laura Murphy-Oates

Thu 24 Feb 2022 03.30 AEDT

Read more:

• AGL open to higher takeover bid but says Cannon-Brookes plan to close coal by 2030 is unrealistic by Peter Hannam, Adam Morton and Katharine Murphy
• AGL rejects takeover bid by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canadian fund manager Brookfield by Adam Morton, Peter Hannam and Katharine Murphy
• Mike Cannon-Brookes dismisses PM’s suggestion that coal plants should run to end of scheduled life by Adam Morton and Katharine Murphy
• Why is a tech billionaire trying to buy Australia’s dirtiest energy company AGL? by Adam Morton and Peter Hannam
• Mike Cannon-Brookes and Brookfield in bid to take over AGL and shut down coal plants earlier by Adam Morton and Peter Hannam
• Clean energy companies plea for government ‘not to get in the way’ of renewable shift by Adam Morton
• Australia’s largest coal-fired power station, Eraring, to close in 2025, seven years early by Adam Morton and Peter Hannam

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