Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor is an absolute embarrassment, for many reasons including for his total refusal to show leadership in his role as Minister for Emissions Reduction. https://reneweconomy.com.au/angus-taylor-im-not-driving-an-electric-car/ From: Maelor Himbury …
There are simply too many articles on the topic to highlight. Suffice it to say, the government’s intervention in the electricity market via their own gas-fired generator has attracted criticism ranging from scorn to derision. Meanwhile, 46 of Victoria’s 79 local governments are collaborating in a massive PPA for electricity from wind. In a quite different context and with a few liberties with the words, us baby-boomers we’re wont to chant at demonstrations ‘One side’s right, one side’s wrong … Angus is a total nong’.
Why do I think of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when I read this article? Is it Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor claiming this IEA report ‘is but a flesh wound’ to his new gas-fired power station he’s going to underwrite or ARENA’s funding for CCS? This mob in Canberra are deeply into the absurd.https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/international-energy-agency-calls-last-drinks-on-fossil-fuels-20210518-p57sxl.html
Now here’s a new one. Sports rorts, change rooms for girls and community development slush funds cost real money to pork-barrel marginal seats. Promising, before the election, car parks in seats you want to protect, then finding out after the event that you can’t deliver anyway doesn’t cost a cent. The LNP got the gain without electoral pain. Will the punters pay enough attention to not be duped again?https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/morrison-government-pulls-100m-promised-for-station-car-parks-20210513-p57rrj.html
Ownership, implying “It’s my land, I can do what I like with it”, is quite a different proposition to Stewardship, “I’m here now, someone looked after this land before me, I need to look afterit for those who come after me”.https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/ng-interactive/2021/may/17/who-owns-australia
it is said that it’s a man’s world, but that is not always the case. Here’re two examples from the bird world that show the benefits of being female. What …
They were shonky as ‘Adani’ and they’re shonky as ‘Bravus’, the name change fools no-one. They are in breach of their conditions, AGAIN, and still they are allowed to proceed. Little wonder we have no faith in the federal government oversight of approval conditions.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/16/adani-admits-breaching-environmental-conditions-for-carmichael-coalmine
The fossil fools seem to have any number of diversions at their disposal, ‘blue’ hydrogen being the latest. Remember the oxymoron clean coal? Yes, no such thing. CCS? Yet to be delivered at cost and scale, despite all the money being thrown at it. Then there’s nuclear, geo-engineering and of course the gas-led recovery. Anything but accept the inevitable – no more fossil fuels.https://reneweconomy.com.au/time-to-stop-flirting-with-blue-hydrogen-and-go-green-experts-say/
Even allowing for the sway that donors have over the LNP, it beggars belief that they cannot see or hear what governments the world over, with very few and notable exceptions, are doing about decarbonising their economies. It was a dud budget from a dud government to a dudded populace.https://theconversation.com/the-budget-should-have-been-a-road-to-australias-low-emissions-future-instead-its-a-flight-of-fancy-160775
It appears that climate idiocy isn’t mandatory for conservatives. In fact conservatives making policy and politicians conserving the one planet we have ought to be intimate bedfellows. This smart Matt Kean chap gets it, it would a good thing if his peers agreed.https://reneweconomy.com.au/nsw-green-hydrogen-industry-could-surpass-value-of-coal-industry-kean-says/