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No surprise he jumped before being pushed.
The resignation announcement would have been the first time most South Australians had heard his name
Spiers would be better suited to the tourism portfolio...
You must have sweet dreams about Bowen, because you sure do post a lot about him... even more than Albanese.
Yeah the last 24 hours 9 August 7.30PM - 10 August 7.30PM renewables 31.5% Non renewables 68.5% output.
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Yeah the last 24 hours 9 August 7.30PM - 10 August 7.30PM renewables 31.5% Non renewables 68.5% output.
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Reality bites for Labor...
Undeterred, Labor is forcing the closure of 90 per cent of our 24/7 baseload power within a decade – closing one system before another is ready.
Reality bites for Labor...
Libs won’t pretend Labor’s 2030 targets are on track
The claim the Coalition is pulling out of the Paris Agreement is a lie. But we won’t be shy in holding the government to account for locking Australia into emission reductions goals it cannot meet.www.afr.com
For the first time in years, Australia went to the United Nations’ COP28 climate change summit in Dubai in December reporting an increase in its greenhouse gas emissions – by 4 million tonnes.
If Labor were on track for its 2030 target, it should have reported a reduction of 17 million tonnes.
Labor spent a decade beating up the Coalition on climate change, despite the fact we beat our Kyoto 1 and Kyoto 2 targets, and were on track to beat our targets as part of the Paris Agreement. When we left office, emissions were about 29 per cent below 2005 levels.
Emissions have since flatlined, and still remain at 29 per cent, despite Labor increasing Australia’s emissions reduction target to 43 per cent by 2030.
Remember the Powering Australia policy, trumpeted as Labor’s “plan to create jobs, cut power bills and reduce emissions by boosting renewable energy”?
Its centrepiece was a plan for 82 per cent renewables by 2030. This required 4.5 gigawatts of additional industrial-scale wind and solar to be installed every year. Last year, less than one-third of this was delivered.
Undeterred, Labor is forcing the closure of 90 per cent of our 24/7 baseload power within a decade – closing one system before another is ready.
Australians now pay among the world’s highest electricity bills and the market operator warns of blackouts as early as summer.
Industry leaders were the first to bell the cat.
According to Alinta Energy CEO Jeff Dimery, “it’s becoming more challenging, not less challenging; on this trajectory we’re unlikely to get there”.
Energy Australia’s Mark Collette argues, “82 per cent was always a very big target that won’t be met on current progress”.
The Climate Change Authority’s latest annual progress report says, “Australia is not reducing emissions at the rate needed to reach the 2030 target”.
At Senate Estimates in February, officials commented on Labor’s 82 per cent renewables plan, saying, “what we are seeing currently is that the investment trends in this sector were not quite what they need to be”.
Even the most optimistic scenario, which assumes all Labor’s policies are delivered as intended, forecasts Australia still falling short of its 2030 target.
Mugged by reality, NSW Labor has extended the life of the Eraring coal-fired power station. Victoria Labor has similar arrangements in place with two coal plants, and last week approved its first gas project in a decade.
But the Albanese government has kept its head in the sand. That is, until Opposition Leader Peter Dutton said at the weekend that Labor’s 2030 targets won’t be met.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen suddenly went into overdrive, claiming the Coalition was pulling out of the Paris Agreement.
This is a lie, of course. We’re committed to Paris and to net zero by 2050. But we won’t be shy in holding Labor to account for locking Australia into a target it cannot meet.
Then came a shrill cry that Australia would be booted out of Paris if it falls short. If that were the case, Labor would have even more explaining to do.
But given the US and EU are also likely to fall short of their 2030 targets, I wonder if Albanese has provided the same advice to US President Joe Biden.
Most telling of Labor’s hysterical response has been its silence on the real-world economic impact of its failed climate and energy policies.
How will Labor achieve its target, how much will it cost, and who will pay?
These questions have never been answered, at least not by Labor. But the work of others provides some hints.
On costs, the nearest estimate of Labor’s plan is the “E+RE+” scenario of the Net Zero Australia study by Princeton University, the University of Melbourne and the University of Queensland, which is $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion by 2030.
Consumers and taxpayers will pick up the tab. At this rate, Labor’s only hope of reaching its 2030 target lies with a collapse of industry.
So, which sector will it attack – agriculture, resources or manufacturing?
What’s clear is that Labor will do whatever it takes, and at any cost.
A point that’s been lost in recent days is that the Albanese government will be submitting Australia’s 2035 target before the next election.
In modelling the 2035 target, Labor will be assuming its 2030 target is met. This means it will only get worse for Australian families and businesses which are already feeling the pain of Labor’s train wreck of an energy policy.
Australia needs a sensible energy policy which delivers cheaper, cleaner and consistent 24/7 electricity, and that’s what the Coalition will deliver.
We won’t be pretending Labor’s 2030 target is achievable.
Sure is...on your part, Labor are a million miles behind their targets that they conned the voters were achievable....and energy prices just keep rising hence their laughable handouts.
Are any of the numbers and facts in that article incorrect?
Again you can't debunk the numbers and facts and we know why you can't because they're spot on = Fail just like the ALP have = Fail.Well we all know we will probably just miss the target @ 42%, a 43% target that was ambitious. At least one group of politicians put up an ambitious target. Your lot committed to a pathetic target of 28%, yes 28%. Basically doing nothing.
One thing I don’t need to do is post articles written by the party I favour on here.
I’ll get back to you but at this point my interest is moreso in the US election due in 87 days and your Trump is losing ground rapidly.
Then and now: what Peter Dutton and the Coalition used to say about a 2030 emissions target
The rhetoric has swung 180 degrees since ministers in Scott Morrison’s government were haranguing Labor over the Paris agreementwww.theguardian.com
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