A former Treasury official has raised doubts about the department’s modelling on net-zero targets which claim green exports would exceed fossil fuel exports within seven years, even under a disorderly transition to net zero.
“Power bills are high but the rollout of renewables are not the cause.” Consider that sentence; a staggering understatement, followed by a brazenly false assertion.
AGL Energy has walked away from its Victorian offshore wind ambitions, toppling a third project in the Gippsland region and throwing into disarray the Allan government’s plan to trade coal for the clean energy source.
A green energy company proposing to build a giant wind farm in regional NSW has received an explosive letter from local First Nations people, saying it is “not welcome” and the project “doesn’t belong here”.
Labor’s treatment of rural Victorians has been shameful. But the country is fighting back and one particular standoff shows how fed up farming communities are with the state government.
Things We Love features the charming stories and authentic recipes from outback Australians and those working in the agricultural industry. It speaks to a culture of cattlemen and women who take pride in working as a team, sharing food and celebrating the wealth and history of knowledge enmeshed in their own unique regions of Australia.
This book richly captures the spirit of these pioneering men and women’s lives and those who work on the land today.