Jeez, if only people made the suggestion decades ago to use gas as a transition fuel (at that time) while having major investment (at that time) in renewables and their stabilisation, including batteries, and divestment (at that time) from coal. If only.
Lucky now that it’s too late for that approach our government now sees it’s feasible.
Ace that is just not fair on Tanya.
Every Minister for Environment and here is the list, have strived to do their duty, even LNP, but not simple when the forces of evil, including mining, unions, commerce, trade and farming do everything in their considerable power to thwart them.
Minister Environment
1 Peter Howson - Liberal
2 Gough Whitlam - Labor
3 Moss Cass - Labor
4 Jim Cairns - Labor
5 Joe Berinson -Labor
6 Andrew Peacock - Liberal
7 Ivor Greenwood - Liberal
8 Kevin Newman - Liberal
9 Ray Groom - Liberal
10 James Webster - Liberal
11 David Thomson - Liberal
12 Robert Ellicott - Liberal
13 Michael MacKellar - Liberal
14 Ian Wilson - Liberal
15 Tom McVeigh - National
16 Barry Cohen - Labor
17 John Brown - Labor
18 Graham Richardson - Labor
19 Ros Kelly - Labor
20 John Faulkner - Labor
21 Robert Hill - Liberal
22 Robert Hill - Liberal
23 David Kemp - Liberal
24 Ian Campbell - Liberal
25 Malcolm Turnbull - Liberal
26 Peter Garrett - Labor
27 Tony Burke - Labor
28 Mark Butler- Labor
29 Greg Hunt - Liberal
30 Josh Frydenberg - Liberal
31 Melissa Price - Liberal
32 Sussan Ley - Liberal
33 Tanya Plibersek - Labor
Some of the above are duds, but there are some very talented people on this list. Back in 1973 when Gough gave Moss Cass the job, it was Dr Cass wanted the Health portfolio and Gough did not like him. Moss always said that you knew where you stood if you were given Environment or Aboriginal Affairs.
Blame Governments if you want, not the Minister, and in any case Government still reflect the community
probably get cushy jobs in a gas company post politics exit. And maybe some bonus “donations” to help fund the next election campaign.
Reportedly, foreign owned companies are the exporters, pay less tax than Australian owned.
My general impression is that most commonly the environment minister is from the more left side of their party. The lefties like this because it means they can make a difference in a portfolio that is important to them, the righties like it because they can control portfolios like energy and resources, and use those to give the leftie a massive ■■■■ sandwich of environmentally awful policies to sell, and thereby destroy the lefty’s credibility among their supporters and any hope they might have had of advancing.
Spot on.
I also think relative to what the party promised and what is being delivered Tanya Plibersek has been worse than Susan Ley in the role.
Ley was fekking evil but she never gave hope she was going to to the right thing, so it made it very easy to target a responce, What Tanya has done has been deceptive, and dangerous.
Oh, oh
You have just sent out the bat signal 
There is a lot of talk about climate change, is it man made, is it higher solar activity and so on and so on.
This video, which is long, but informative, discusses the physics and chemistry, which is really just physics anyway.
There is more to climate change discussion than is usually discussed on both sides of the discussion.
Contains rebuttals of the climate deniers theories, but not in the usual headline grabbing YouTube way. Just the science and physics.
Trying to deny the explanations given is folly. Very consistent with other physicists that I have seen discussing the reasons for climate change being the effects of human industrial activity.
Take it to the Lid Off thread
Florence is a Machine.
My brother has gone over to Snowy 2.0 in a management role and some of the stories he has told me of incompetence beggars belief. It’s seen as a big gravy train and as they know government will pick up the tab they just blow money for fun. Reckons it’s one of the most wasteful projects he has worked on and he has been involved in some decent sized ones
I’ll try to post something longer about the gas increase soon, but the outcry against this is missing the forest for the trees.
This is the energy generation forecast through to 2050, which includes more gas but has a massive total drop in emissions with a vast increase in electricity generation.
That shows Australia’s consumption energy mix and doesn’t show the true impact from Australian oil and gas export usage.
It doesn’t capture Australia’s impact to overall energy production.
Expect our gas to support a similar mix in other countries. Gas will be a 1-5% player in the total energy demand for a while, but it will enable the removal of oil and coal from the economy.
Feedback loops are currently running amok, so this is probably moot, but can we afford this? It’s a lot. If we are going to ever be a serious player on making a difference to the climate calamity, this cannot be how we go about it. We are, essentially, a petrostate, and this just confirms it.
Our Faustian bargain.
Is Methane not an equivalent factor here though?
Add: although an economic more than climate equation, I can’t get on board with Gas with no national reserve policy and a pathetic revenue take.
