The pollution doesn’t go away it just happens somewhere else with fewer regulations and less filters like China or Bangladesh. All that happens is that Australi

The pollution doesn’t go away it just happens somewhere else with fewer regulations and less filters like China or Bangladesh. All that happens is that Australia uses more expensive nat gas power and the coal gets exported elsewhere. Also keep in mind that there is pretty extensive pollution created by manufacturing a power plant in the first place. It’s often more environmentally sound to use up existing facilities even if they are a bit dirtier than to build brands new ones