I’m expecting to see the Labor Party side with the Greens and vote to block funding for the Collinsville clean coal-fired power station next week.

The Australian Conservation Foundation is trying to block the funding, and they will be aided and abetted by the Greens and the Labor Party.

It will be crunch time in the Senate for Labor when the Greens mount a disallowance motion after Energy Minister Angus Taylor tables the feasibility funding for Shine Energy’s clean-coal fired power station at Collinsville next week.

I’ve been told that the Australian Conservation Foundation are telling the Minister not to hand over the money.

But the Greens can only win on this with the support of their Labor mates, so now is the time for Labor to show their true colours on coal, and coal-fired power.

Do they support a clean coal-fired power station to create jobs and lower power prices in Central and North Queensland?

Or will they say one thing when they’re standing in Mackay and Townsville and something completely different when they’re comfortably surrounded by their green-left mates in the inner cities?

This is a clear test for the Labor Party on where they stand on clean coal-fired power.

It’s a test I expect them to fail, judging by the words and actions of their leaders.

The Labor leader wants to muzzle anyone who mentions the word coal. (https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/just-wrong-anthony-albanese-slaps-down-joel-fitzgibbon-on-antigreen-campaign/news-story/15ce13463798fdf6053d6c1b8754ad74)

Just two days ago other Labor leaders gathered together in the online stratosphere to talk up the ‘climate emergency’. (https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/joel-fitzgibbon-says-anthony-albanese-bring-labor-back-to-the-political-centre/news-story/b4c7067043455057dda3a4955f1c029a)

It’s pretty clear how this will play out. And no-one in Central and North Queensland will be surprised.