Pursuit of renewables breaks promises
OPPOSITION leader Peter Dutton is seeking an intelligent conversation on the role new age technologies may play in Australia’s energy mix. To paraphrase the Irish joke (no offence intended), Canberra is the wrong place to begin searching.
Not only is the ACT the most woke capital in the nation but the FIFO Teals, Greens and ideologically-blinkered Labor MPS aren’t lifting its average IQ one iota.
Being the heaviest subscribers to the Guardian, Nine Media and the ABC (the left’s print and broadcast services) means they just aren’t up with what’s happening in the real world. Germany, where the Greens first won parliamentary seats, is dismantling a wind farm to make way for the expansion of an open-pit lignite, brown coal, mine to provide reliable base load energy.
That’s because former leader Angela Merkel’s illogical and disgraceful over-reliance on unreliable so-called renewables and scandalous dependence on Russian gas has left the German GreenCoalition government in the cold dark as winter approaches.
Here, Labor, the Teals and Greens are screaming to close cleaner black coal power stations without providing any reliable replacement energy sources.
The ABC’S Patricia Karvelas may have been reading from Labor’s daily issued “talking points” when she scolded Dutton Friday morning for merely suggesting that there is a need to include nuclear energy in any discussion about meeting Australia’s power crisis.
Dutton made the point in his Budget reply that power prices during the Rudd-gillard-rudd years rose on average by 12.9 per cent per year and that over nine years of Coalition government they rose by an average of 0.3 of one per cent per year. Karvelas didn’t want to acknowledge another fact – during the election campaign Prime
Minister Anthony Albanese promised on 97 occasions that your bills would be reduced by $275.
Instead of going down by $275, Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ Budget calls for increases of more than 56 per cent over the next two years, with gas bill increases of more than 44 per cent.
Australia is in a worse position than Germany as almost all heavy industry has already been exported to China to the cheers of the Greens and Teals. A handful of Labor’s traditional supporters understand the catastrophe facing the nation unless pragmatic action is taken.
Dan Walton, the national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, is among them. As the representative of 72,000 workers across the nation, Dan knows that without reliable, affordable energy, they will be out of work.
Further, he pointed out that unless the Labor government can ensure that householders and businesses have affordable power, the Albanese government will be unable to deliver on its big initiatives. All forms of energy must be considered if those big ticket aspirational goals are to be met, including nuclear, otherwise they will remain dreams for dreamers.