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"This is getting just a little absurd. The federal Coalition’s pro-fossil and
anti-renewable energy policy has not made much sense for many years, and the
sudden embrace of nuclear hasn’t helped the endless contradictions.
Let’s just look at the last couple of days as an example. Nationals leader
David Littleproud says the Coalition is not against renewables, but wants to
stop the roll out of large scale wind and solar. “We won’t need large scale
industrial renewable projects,” he says.
“The Nationals are not against renewable energy, but it should be in the right
place, such as solar on rooftops in the cities,” the party wrote on its website
after his visit to Wollongong.
We’ve heard this for years from the nuclear and fossil fuel lobby: They claim
they are not against renewables, but they say they really don’t like wind and
solar farms, and insist they can’t and won’t work. But let’s move on.
Littleproud turned up in Wollongong on Monday to campaign against the new
offshore wind zone. He waved towards the ocean and the dozens of coal ships
waiting to dock and said he is against floating offshore wind in the Illawarra,
but apparently he is not opposed to fixed bottom offshore wind in Gippsland.
“They are fixed in Gippsland, this is floating,” he said, when asked to
explain. Maybe it’s a whale thing. Floating coal ships good, floating wind
turbines bad.
The Nationals don’t want new transmission lines either, but they say they don’t
mind the one going from Gippsland to the Latrobe Valley. “The transmission
lines that are required aren’t as necessary,” Littleproud said when asked.
Nope, we don’t understand that either. Definitely not the whales though."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
