‘Policy’ load of hot air
JENNY Brown’s letter to the editor (TB, 14/08) allows us to see the failing of the extreme green attitude.
Jenny, of course wind power overtook hydro power in 2019. The Greens/labor won’t allow any new dams.
While Labor relies on the Greens to get it over the line, we still have to have water, power, farmers, ploughing, fertiliser and irrigation, all of which the Greens and the Labor/liberal Left have pushed aside.
How about we have the gumption to look at the entire issue, Jenny?
First, we need our farmers to produce clean food for us, not rely on imports, so what do
Labor and the Greens do? Weigh down our farmers with regulations, fines and paperwork.
We need power – a mix of solar, wind, hydro and base-load coal-fired power stations because our population is not decreasing.
To build just one single wind turbine requires 2500 tonnes of concrete, 90 tonnes of steel and, worst of all, 45 tonnes of nonrecyclable plastic. And that’s not counting the fuel etc to get the materials on site.
The 481 cubic metres of cement for one turbine emits 115.4 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
You omitted that in your letter Jenny.
No Green/labor politician has come out in support of farmers, who can grow our way out of our reliance on destructible plastic.
You quote Costa Rica, which generated 99.15 per cent of its energy from renewable sources.
The last Jurassic Park movie I saw indicated Costa Rica was a water-rich nation with average rainfall of 41cm a year.
Considering 20 per cent of the population lives under the poverty line, with average income of about $US8000 ($A11,150), I cannot imagine the power needs of this nation are anything like ours.
We cannot allow this manic free fall towards the energy policy the Greens/labor have, because it will not serve our country.
Why are you not wanting dams? Why not help farmers grow what we need to eat and rid us of plastic? Why are you allowing our tax dollars to fund overseas companies in the guise of solar/wind energy?
Instead of assisting food and fibre production, you demand more regulation, more public servants and more wasted studies.
Not once have the Greens or the WWF agreed to trial farms with your so-called “policy”.
This browbeating slant on our energy production is not going to deliver clean food, fibre and energy, Jenny, because the dirt-on-your-hands experience, the love and knowledge a farmer has for his land, is being ignored to aid green ideology and votes in places that benefit from the “regions” but fail to understand the basics.
DEBRA GIBSON, Pinnacles.