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As originally proposed, the mine would have been the largest coal mine in Australia and one of the largest in the world, with the sixty years of life of the project. [...] The emissions from burning the amount of coal produced from the mine, would, in a “worst-case” scenario correspond to the emission of 127 million tons of CO2. [...] In this vein, it is obvious in reports that the closure of Liddell power station concerned other policy-makers and that the Turnbull government sought to avert the impact of the proposed closure of the AGL-owned Liddell Power Station in 2022 (J. [...] Some of these proposals in the government’s maneuvering with AGL belied traditional values of the Liberal partners in the Coalition government, “Malcolm Turnbull (then Prime Minister) is trying desperately to keep the Liberal Party’s free marketeers, the Nationals’ agrarian socialists and peak bodies like the Business Council all inside the tattered old tent that John Howard built back in the 1990. [...] On the one hand, “both the Federal Government and the Opposition support our Renewable Energy Target, which will double the amount of renewable energy across the country over the next five years.