OPINION: 58 ADANI’S IN CHINA, AND WE GET UPSET ABOUT ONE
Each year the gold standard of energy statistics comes out in July. The Statistical Review of World Energy reports in great detail about the energy sources that countries actually use, not what they say they will use. For example, two years ago almost all countries in the world met in Glasgow and agreed that they […]
OPINION: WHY NOT NUCLEAR?
As I drove out to Emerald to visit the AgGrow Field Day, I passed train after train full of coal. The coal trains were travelling to Gladstone to be put on a ship and sent to Japan, China, India, Korea and many other countries. The day before the Liberal and Nationals parties had announced its […]
OPINION: RENEWABLES MAKING MORE GAPS THAN THEY’RE FILLING
We are starting to realise why nothing green ever comes cheap. We are constantly promised that “renewable energy is the cheapest form of power”, but there is no real-world evidence that this is true. Australia introduced the Renewable Energy Act in 2000. Ever since, our electricity prices have skyrocketed, more than tripling over this period. […]
OPINION: COAL NOT DEAD
Over the past year I have attended the official opening of two new coal mines. I have been a Senator for 10 years and do not think I have ever seen two coal mines open in one year. The Olive Downs mine, in the Bowen Basin, will employ more than 1000 people and export steelmaking […]
OPINION: MONEY SHOULDN’T BUY YOU EVERYTHING
This month the Texas Government ripped $8.5 billion of its funds from the world’s largest investment fund manager, BlackRock. Texas made this decision based on a law passed in 2021 that banned financial institutions from boycotting entire parts of the agricultural or mining industries. These laws are broadly aimed at the scourge of ESG investment […]
OPINION: FACTS FIGHT AGAINST FICTION
A few years ago a BHP executive, Fiona Wild, told The Guardian newspaper that the election of Joe Biden had given her “great hope” that we would be able to “avoid the worst impacts of climate change.” Ms Wild went on to say that “We’ve been pretty clear that we don’t think energy coal has […]
