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"Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce has described renewable energy development as a
“swindle” and wind turbines as “filth,” in an address to a rally against
Australia’s shift to renewable energy in Canberra on Tuesday.
The Rally Against Reckless Renewables, reported to have been attended by
between 300 and 500 people, had almost as many speakers as listeners, starting
with a long list of LNP climate deniers, fossil boosters and nuclear pushers.
As the AAP reported, Coalition politicians speaking at the half-day
demonstration – designed to coincide with the first sitting day of federal
Parliament in 2024 — included Joyce, Keith Pitt, Matt Canavan, Jacinta Price,
David Gillespie, Gerrard Rennick, Michelle Landry, Llew O’Brien, Ross Cadell
and Colin Boyce.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation was represented by Queensland Senator Malcolm
Roberts and NSW upper house MP Tania Mihailuk, while the national director of
the United Australia Party and self-declared climate sceptic Craig Kelly, along
with Victorian UAP Senator Ralph Babet.
According to the protest’s co-ordinator, Sandra Bourke from Hawks Nest, the
main purpose of the event is to demand an inquiry into the rollout of renewable
energy – including offshore wind – and high-voltage transmission lines. Bourke
says its about representation of community concerns, with a bit of pro-nuclear
campaigning on the side.
Bourke also told the AAP she was not a climate sceptic and was not backed by a
political party or bankrolled by oil or gas lobby groups.
But the politicians at the event appear to have picked up where the Coalition
opposition left off back in 2011, when the then leader of the opposition Tony
Abbott spoke at an anti carbon tax rally in Canberra against a backdrop of
placards calling prime minister Julia Gillard “Bob Brown’s bitch” and demanding
“Ditch the witch.”
In the end there was little very talk about the concerns of community, and a
whole lot of unhinged anti-wind and solar vitriol and wild conspiracy theories,
betraying the desperation of conservative politicians who have already had to
concede that King Coal is dead, and are clinging for dear life to hopes that
nuclear will bring renewable energy undone."
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
