Greens candidate Malcolm McKelvie is challenging the other by-election candidates to compare energy use in their campaign offices. He has offered a free audit by a professional energy assessor and is keen to help them reduce their energy use during this campaign.

Greens candidate Dr Malcolm McKelvie is calling for sanity after a new coal production plant for the Latrobe valley was announced yesterday.

"This is a completely crazy idea," Dr McKelvie said “we are trying to reduce carbon pollution, not increase it.”