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"Today I’ve started what will become a series of articles entitled
Big Green
Lies.
What has prompted this series is the sheer scale of bullshit out there about
renewable energy and alternatives to fossil fuels, more broadly.
It’s even told to me as fact from people who I would consider to be seriously
concerned about climate change. I even hear some of this bullshit amplified by
people who work in the renewable energy sector.
For my first column, I’d like to focus on claims that the roll-out of renewable
energy is tearing up the Australian landscape and seriously undermining farmers
ability to grow our food.
In particular I’d like to focus on a press release issued by the leader of the
Nationals Party leader David Littleproud on 30 September entitled, Shocking
renewables report sends alarm bells.
In this press release Littleproud references an online map (which he refers to
as a ‘report’) of operating and proposed renewable energy projects published by
an organisation called Rainforest Reserves Australia.
In this press release Littleproud states:
The environmental and agricultural impacts of the policy [Labor’s renewable
energy plans] demonstrated in the report are also real, with over 400,000
hectares of landscape destroyed, tearing up native habitat and prime
agricultural land….“We’re not only tearing up Australia’s food security,
we’re tearing up the thing we’re meant to be protecting – the natural
environment.
He followed this up with an interview with the
2GB radio program where he
explained that what the map showed was that the roll-out of renewable energy
was “frightening”. This was echoed by his National Party colleague Colin Boyce
who said, “This is going to have an enormous impact on the geography of the
wider Australian landscape.”
So what does this map show?"
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
