Energy minister CHRIS BOWEN continues to contradict himself on an almost daily basis by broadcasting on one day that Australia is quite capable of achieving at least 95% RENEWABLE ENERGY on the national grid by around 2035 (which is utter hogwash), and literally the next day, or certainly by week's end, he is quite inexplicably on a completely different tangent and presenting himself (increasingly so) as the saviour of Australia's east coast gas supply.
In other words, what little bit of pragmatic common sense Bowen possesses appears to be finally materialising, in a very censored form, to at least acknowledge the critical importance of natural gas to shore up Australia's medium to long term energy security.
Because if Bowen gets what he wants, and that is practically zero coal fired power by 2035, then Australia is going to be "desperately reliant" on gas to meet the most fundamentally rock bottom baseload energy demands. That's all there is to it.
Queensland's LNP government, the only non-Labor state one besides Tasmania, is making it no secret that they can smell Bowen's "renewables only" bullshit from 100 miles away, and are prepared to use whatever statutory powers the state has, which are substantial, to thwart Bowen and the Albanese government and keep at least two coal fired power stations operating in Queensland long beyond 2035.
Which is just logical. Because Queensland already is much more reliant on coal power than much of New South Wales and especially Victoria, where gas and the infrastructure to distribute is already dominant.
Bowen's more recent "grudging acceptance" of gas is very indicative that he knows that the wheels are totally falling off his propaganda wagon pitching Net Zero and at least an 82% reduction in omissions of that "dreadful gas", which is actually in mildly apocalyptic decline, called CO2, within 10 years from now.
Bowen (and Albanese) continue to ignore the elephant in the room, which is the real cause of any industrial CO2 saturation in the atmosphere, called DEFORESTATION.
Large tracts of natural forest, which AREN'T destroyed by "industrial wind farms (and solar farms too)" , is the best carbon filter there is.
So you'd think that Bowen's (as well as Albo's and environment minister MURRAY WATT's) absolute number one priority objective right now would be to act with haste to engage in the biggest mass scale national and environmental park gazettal in this country's history, saving Australia's primest native habitat first before there is ANY continuation whatsoever of approving ANY renewable energy projects.
But common sense it seems got lost on its way to the heads of all three men. Because to this day there isn't even the slightest cue of dialogue coming from the mouth of Bowen, Albo and Watt about the "universal importance" of balancing the need to protect biodiversity against the acceptance and development of renewable energy.
From the outset, from day dot, the only economically rational and environmentally responsible position that any government in Australia could adopt, in regards to "energy security", was one categorisable as a MIXED ENERGY GRID.
One where "environmentally responsible" renewable energy sources supplement a mixture of coal fired, gas and potentially "some" nuclear power. I really don't think that concept has any chance of altering the hair brained absolutist ideology of CHRIS BOWEN.
By the way, off subject, but there is no such thing as FOSSIL FUELS, so GAS isn't one of them because they don't exist. Just had to thrown that one in (chuckle).
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