[mayd]

Not so much. Australian coal-fired generators are gradually being phased out and replaced by gas-fired generators, or by renewable sources in some jurisdictions.

Australia is still a large coal producer, most of which is exported to China and India. And Australian export coal is high quality thermal coal meaning that it produces more heat and less CO2 than the brown coal those countries would otherwise use. Yet activists and Labor Part/Green Party politicians are constantly trying to close down the coal-mining industry even though there is no possibility of either India or China reducing their coal usage in the foreseeable future.

Australia also produces a lot of natural gas, mostly for export. Consumers in the Eastern states are experiencing massive power price inflation because their state governments chose not to replace old coal-fired generators with gas-fired power generation in their states, banned development of new gas fields: i.e. an all-renewable sources policy, and they must pay international market prices for their gas. Western Australia produces large amounts of gas and a proportion is production reserved for the state of Western Australia. As a result Western Australia has relatively low power prices and a secure supply of gas.

[rpigab]

That's good to know. I heard Australia had the worst CO2 emissions per capita of the world in 2009, so even if PFAS air pollution isn't about CO2, there are correllations so it's wierd to see it both in the best and worst (of course extremely low population density can hide high air pollution per capita).