Multiple comments left on
The Gympie Times website were critical of Mr OâBrienâs views.
LOVEGYMPIE: âHmm, weâre a huge country with loads of sun, wind and surrounded completely by an ocean and yet they constantly concentrate on coal power. SA has shown battery storage works. Without zero emissions, so many lives will be lost.â
GEOFFS15: âAs usual you are wrong on every level OâBrien. The Nationals are even abandoning the very base that votes for you. The National Farmers Federation and the Grain Growers Limited all support Net Zero by 2050, Meat and Livestock Australia actually have a target of Net Zero by 2030 and have a road map on how to get there.â
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Anthony Albanese has accused the Coalition of “more chaos” in energy policy, after the Nationals in the Senate announced new amendments to a government bill in favour of nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage. On Thursday the entire Nationals Senate team led by Bridget McKenzie and Matt Canavan announced they would seek amendments to the Clean Energy Finance Corporation bill to allow it to invest in the two technologies. It follows an.
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Subscriber only Queensland coal rebel MPs were moving to back a plan to make it easier for the government to invest cash into coal-fired power stations when the Bill was pulled from the agenda. The proposal developed by Senator Matt Canavan and moved by Barnaby Joyce would have hijacked a bill on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, intended to create a $1 billion grid reliability fund, to also allow the investment body to fund high-energy low-emissions coal-fired power stations. It is understood about five government MPs were planning to back the move, including Wide Bay MP Llew O Brien.
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