Antinuclear

Last week the Prime Minister made clear that under this management Australia would be far better off if certain industries just went away and silently died.

The wind power industry (a multibillion-dollar business), for instance. And, by inference, the entire renewable energy sector. Despite the outrageous nature of this attitude, it is for those who look beyond the election cycle and to Australia’s long-term future, all the more predictable a stance.

Mr Abbott last Thursday revealed to broadcaster Alan Jones that he would prefer there to be fewer wind farms. “What we did recently in the Senate was reduce, Alan, capital R-E-D-U-C-E the number of these things that we are going to get in the future. Now, I would frankly have liked to have reduced the number a lot more … but we got the best deal we could.”

Mr Abbott mentioned the recently agreed renewable energy target of 33,000 gigawatt hours by 2020 was only the lowest the government could be assured of getting through the Parliament. Mr Abbott also said wind farms were “visually awful”, made a lot of noise and were injurious to health. ……..http://www.theage.com.au/comment/the-age-editorial/facts-lost-amid-political-bluster-20150613-ghn94w.html