Power sector to get special treatment under Direct Action

By Peter Hannam and Lisa Cox
Updated March 27 2015 - 6:13pm, first published 5:46pm
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.
Hazelwood - Australia's most emissions-intensive major power plant.

The Abbott government has proposed a major concession to the heavy-polluting electricity industry in its Direct Action climate change policy by exempting individual companies from caps on emissions.

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