Tim Buckley on the causes and solutions of the energy crisis in this extended interview: “We have a budget, energy and climate crisis. We need permanent solutions at scale, we need to flood the market with cheap new capacity as fast as we can – wind, solar, rooftop solar – batteries, energy efficiency. And we need to make the fossil fuel producers pay tax. On policy, we’ve had a decade of stupid. Let’s not do more stupid.”
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Tim Buckley interviewed on BHP’s inability to find a buyer to offload its huge Hunter Valley Mt Arthur coal mine, the $1-1.5bn rehabilitation costs for the toxic mine site, and the federal LNP’s government’s failure to support investment in the renewable energy future.
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Tim Buckley interviewed about the energy crisis that has landed in the lap of the new federal ALP government after a decade of federal LNP government policy paralysis.
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Tim Buckley notes that the unreliability of ageing coal-fired power plants, and the multinational fossil gas cartel’s regulatory capture and control of eastern Australian gas supplies have helped create a perfect storm for eastern states’ energy markets.
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Tim Buckley says we need to reserve gas for Australians and impose a windfall tax on fossil fuel multinationals in this interview across the national Triple M network.
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Tim Buckley,: “East Australia’s energy market worked fine until 2015 when 5-6 gas firms opened Gladstone LNG exports. A regulatory failure to protect our domestic market first now sees those firms making supernormal profits and 22 million of us paying the price.”
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Tim Buckley notes Labor was elected with a clear climate and energy mandate, including 82% renewables by 2030 and a fully costed $20bn Rewiring the Nation roadmap in this AAP story published in over 100 mastheads.
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