Big biz coal call to MPs

PRO-COAL MPs have had an “unequivocal” message from big manufacturers to fall into line behind the Coalition’s national energy guarantee.

Executives from BlueScope and BHP were in Canberra yesterday urging the Coalition’s backbench energy committee to back the plan.

Treasurer Scott Morrison said some of the biggest electricity users had made it clear to MPs it was time to end uncertainty in the energy market.

“The politics and the ideology and the idiocy ... we will rule a line on that,” he said yesterday.