Is green bank's $100m corporate ag play new money for old rope?

Mike Foley
March 22 2019 - 4:00am
Cleaning up: The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has invested $100m in Macquarie Bank's cropping arm, Viridis Ag, to promote low-emissions systems. File image. Photo Rachael Webb.
Cleaning up: The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has invested $100m in Macquarie Bank's cropping arm, Viridis Ag, to promote low-emissions systems. File image. Photo Rachael Webb.

Questions are being raised about the benefits of a $100 million equity investment into a corporate farmer by a Commonwealth agency tasked with lowering carbon emissions. 

Mike Foley

Mike Foley

National rural reporter

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