PM to announce $60m for clean energy projects.


Prime Minister John Howard will announce more Government funding for clean energy projects valued at $60 million.
The Federal Government has been facing a barrage of questions this week about climate change, amid the dire prediction about global warming in a British report by economist Sir Nicholas Stern.
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says the timing of Government's funding boost this morning is just a coincidence.
This morning in Canberra, he and Mr Howard will unveil the funding for 42 projects aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane says one project is a mobile carbon catcher to help make coal-fired power stations less polluting.
"That is technology that is already on the back of a truck and ready to be rolled out and trialled in various power stations around Australia and ultimately overseas," he said.
Greens Senator Bob Brown has condemned the project and says the Government's priorities are wrong.
"It's pathetic when you see what ought to have been done," he said.
"The fact that the Government has taken much more money than that out of the solar industry, which is world's best technology, which can be implemented now - you see how lost the priorities of the Government are."