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The Albanese government is claiming to have doubled the approval of clean energy projects since it was elected to government.
The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, has told ABC Radio the change has come about by removing brown tape and giving business more confidence in investment:
We’re getting rid of the brown tape - the negativity, the delay, the denial that the previous government applied when they were looking at renewable energy projects and the evidence is that we’ve more than doubled them.
We’ve approved 11 renewable energy projects in the 10 months since coming to government and the comparison period, under the previous government, was five so we’ve more than doubled.
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