The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideology.
In a press release on Wednesday, first given to the Australian for a not exactly hard-won “exclusive”, it declared “Australians need cheaper power, not more ideology”.
As one campaigner put it, it is a plan to let climate change rip.
Most of what the Coalition announced wasn’t new.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, 85% of new power capacity built last year was renewable, and 90% of the renewables built were cheaper than the lowest fossil fuel alternative.
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G ive the Coalition points for chutzpah. That worldview says climate change is not real, or at least not a real concern, and Australia should abolish nearly all plans to respond to or prepare the economy for the changes under way.
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The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are not based on fact but ideology.
G ive the Coalition points for chutzpah, if nothing else. In a press release on Wednesday, first given to the Australian for a not exactly hard-won “exclusive”, it declared “Australians need cheaper power, not more ideology”.
You don’t have to get far beyond that headline to find its position comes from a worldview that is ideology on steroids.
As one campaigner put it, it is a plan to let climate change rip.
From a here-and-now consumer point of view, it is a plan that is based on the fallacy that the big jump in power bills in recent years is due to renewable energy and a legislated net zero target. Evidence and most experts say otherwise.
Most of what the Coalition announced wasn’t new. The fresh bit is that it has promised to package up eight commitments in a new bill that would be introduced within 30 days if it was elected. At least half of those commitments are to abolish policies that were introduced under Coalition governments led by Scott Morrison, Tony Abbott and John Howard.
Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan say they would tear up the safeguard mechanism, introduced under Abbott, in theory to put a limit on pollution from industrial sites.
According to the International Renewable Energy Agency, 85% of new power capacity built last year was renewable, and 90% of the renewables built were cheaper than the lowest fossil fuel alternative.
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