By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
WHILE Sydney radio host Ben Fordham was being told by western NSW councillor Alexandra Meggitt that her district blacked out on State of Origin night No. 2, despite it being covered in 10 wind farm projects, Barnaby Joyce was creating a stir on the lawns of Parliament House announcing his Private Member’s Bill to “rid the nation of of the noxious policy of Net Zero”.
Cr Meggitt has been walking from the Upper Lachlan Shire to Canberra to highlight the disastrous invasion of 354 wind towers in her community, with hundreds more planned.
Joyce meanwhile, also went on the ABC’s 7.30 Report to endure a haranguing from the commissar of political correctness Sarah Ferguson, who demanded in her patronising plumb-in-the-mouth faux Oxford accent that Joyce “not snow the audience with a discussion about net zero – there’s 123 countries signed up to it!”
So Ms Ferguson believes an alleged “environmental cause” is necessarily correct and righteous just because 123 countries “signed up to it”. Unlike a genuine journalist, she didn’t want to hear Joyce detail the multi-million-dollar renewable energy subsidy scams being perpetrated on the Australian government and public.
Other ABC news reports gave Joyce’s Bill a brief mention, before jumping to remind us yet again of the CSIRO’s second or third-time-released report gushing over the “benefits” of renewable energy. “The Bill won’t get up,” one journalist noted with an air of arrogance.
They also reminded listeners that a UN “climate emissary” was about to descend upon Australia to talk to the likes of Chris Bowen and no doubt remind us all that sea levels in the Torres Strait are rising “faster than anywhere else” – another campaign of green left baloney being pushed among the northerners by the ABC.
The serious side to this is the International Court of Justice is now on the side of multi-billion-dollar indigenous and environmentalist lawsuit grifters, who will be specifically targeting “deeply sinful” coal-producing colonialist states like Australia – but not China – for contributing to the “crime” of climate change.
And of course within the same week the greenie-stacked CSIRO yet again released its report claiming Australia’s so-called transition to renewables would provide the “cheapest energy” – a spurious claim based on faulty economics and statistical massaging – not to mention the obvious and horrendous rise in energy prices in recent years coinciding with the transition to renewables.
Coal and nuclear power provide a centralized 24×7 source of electricity with minimal transmission line requirements. Wind, solar and battery installations are widely dispersed across the country. They provide a sporadic, unpredictable electricity supply that must be connected by multiple transmission lines heavily reliant on weather and back-up generation such as gas-fired turbines. Batteries temporarily fill the frequent gaps.
South Australia, which relies heavily on wind and solar, has the most expensive electricity in Australia and relies on batteries, gas, diesel and the national grid to supplement its supply. But power prices are irrelevant to Ferguson and the pampered ABC-Labor-Green-Teal political class.
Joyce sees the other end of the spectrum: the rural poor struggling to pay their electricity bills – which includes a considerable number of rural business operators who don’t have the large customer bases like those in large population centres.
Barnaby did manage to get one uninterrupted point across to Comrade Ferguson: “If you want merely one reason, out of so many, to get rid of this lead weight around the neck of Australians it is this: Australia’s Net Zero policy will have no effect on the climate whatsoever, so why do so much damage to yourself in attempting it?”
“I have been asked why we don’t wait for the end of a review into Net Zero. Why? Because it supposes you are open to a myriad of outcomes. You may end with a recommendation to merely amend Net Zero. You may come to the end of the review with a decision to keep Net Zero.
“We don’t want to amend Net Zero, we don’t want to keep Net Zero we want to get rid of Net Zero. It is the only outcome, so we don’t need a review.
“It is like having a review into the benefits of smoking. You don’t need one, it is self-evident it will kill you.”
