DEAR News Of The Area,
THE Nationals have rejected ‘Net Zero’, the policy they signed up to when Barnaby Joyce was their leader.
Net Zero has become a totemic symbol, a two-word slogan the Nationals hate. But Net Zero is much more than a slogan – it’s an ambitious investment, energy, jobs, industry and environment package.
Net Zero is not primarily about reducing Australia’s emissions.
It’s mostly about transitioning an ageing energy system to renewable energy from hydro, solar and wind.
The fuel for these methods of generating electricity comes free of charge.
Who in their right minds would not support that?
The cost of building solar and wind farms is borne by the private sector and linking them with new transmission lines is a public sector cost.
It cost a lot to build an energy system on coal, oil and gas, paid for out of our taxes.
Having a clear Net Zero by 2050 policy is giving business the signal it needs to invest.
The last time the Nationals were in government Australia lost 5GW of power generation and only one gigawatt (GW) was built.
The current Net Zero energy plan is building 40GW of power generation right now and power prices will come down faster than any Coalition plan to delay the transition we must have.
We simply cannot trust the National party with our energy needs, or the existential need to keep us safe from increasing extreme weather disasters made worse by human-induced climate change.
Just walking away from Net Zero is not a solution to high electricity prices. Unless they can explain how they will create 60GW of new generation by 2050, Net Zero will become ‘Nat Zero’!
Regards,
Harry CREAMER,
Port Macquarie.
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