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"They sure know how to celebrate a win in Queensland, and there’s been a few
big wins in recent weeks: First the Brisbane Lions won the AFL flag, and a week
later the Brisbane Broncos snatched a remarkable victory in the NRL grand
final, hours after the club’s women’s team had won the NRLW flag.
In the green energy race, however, Queensland is coming stone, motherless last,
even if – according to its own treasurer and energy minister – it has the best
talent (the wind and solar resources) in the country, if not the world.
It remains, however, the most coal dependent state in the country, and the LNP
government has condemned it to stay that way – possibly for decades. And yet
the LNP seems to be just as triumphant over winning that wooden spoon as they
have been with their sporting glories.
None of this should be a surprise. But the brazenness of the state LNP
government and its attack on renewables and its defence of a dying and
polluting industry does take the breath away. Again.
The LNP started off by promising to scrap the state renewable energy targets,
introduced new planning laws, reneged on several wind farm approvals and
“called in” others, promised $1.6 billion to keep coal operating and finally on
Friday unveiled its roadmap that – based on its own numbers – shuts the door on
renewables.
As we reported on Friday, energy minister and treasurer David Janetzki had
tried to paint the picture that the state is still open for business for large
scale renewables – a “pragmatic plan … for affordable, reliable and sustainable
energy,” he told about 500 energy industry people gathered at Brisbane
convention centre on Friday.
But his own speech, and the roadmap document itself, betray his words.
All the new capacity that the LNP says will be built between now and 2030 (6.5
gigawatts) is either already under construction, contracted by Rio Tinto to
replace the state’s biggest coal generator at Gladstone, or underwritten by the
federal government’s Capacity Investment Scheme.
The LNP’s own numbers indicate that it expects zero – yes zero – other new wind
and solar capacity to be built in that time."
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
