Bandaids, the polititians answer to all ales.
Some changes are happening withing the energy sector and with government at the moment. I am a shift production manager with AGL Energy and can see the changes happening on a daily basis. AGL is committed to investing in carbon free or at least carbon reduced energy generation. With the government in Victoria finally seeing some sense and awarding a huge supply contract to AGL for green energy, AGL is now committed to building and operating another 2 very large wind farms in Victoria along with a new Hydro generating plant which will supply enough for this project and a bit more. They have also just recieved authorisation for a new large gas (Low carbon ) generating station in NSW plus the company is now working on building another 2 large wind farms in SA bringing the total in SA to five farms.
Not too bad working for a company who have their sites set on being the largest supplier of green energy and a true committment to producing green energy in the country and maybe doing something towards saving something for our children. I just wish government would follow the same tak.
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Originally Posted by renormalised
Precisely, Doug. None of the so called "solutions" that they've come up with are anymore than bandaids in order to salve the people's concerns and give the pollies time to hide away from the real responsibility of actually doing something constructive about it. Jump on the bandwagon, but hope that some other poor git is going to pick up the tab.
In order to solve this problem, it's going to take billions of dollars and lots of research, but in the meantime we also need to be making some sort of effort to reduce our emissions without fear or favour to anyone...least of all big energy and business. This legislation will barely make a dent in emissions, so what's the point of it, apart from another money grabbing exercise and shaft the "little" fella whilst in the meantime pandering to their big business buddies. It happens all the time, and not just in this instance.
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