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Another Green Spruiker Takes AEMO’s Helm
As well as subsidy-seekers, governments, international institutions, business leaders and investment managers all conspire to close down cheap energy. The confected notion of harmful climate change is the justification for the dethronement of market forces and their replacement by a new clerisy of politicians and bureaucrats controlling the world’s economies. Though market forces would normally bring the demise of higher-cost suppliers, political and administrative impediments under the Paris Accord on climate change are designed to prevent this, as my recent piece in The Spectator explains.
Although Australia is not (yet) formally adopting “net zero” emissions, there are strong pressures to do so. In any event, Australia is unlikely to face the carbon tariff barriers that the US and EU are inching towards, as the impositions we place on hydrocarbons and the subsidies we provide to renewables are already among the most “progressive” in the world. This is facilitated…
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3 mins
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13 mins
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15 mins