4 years ago
NSW LIBERAL TREASURER CALLING OUT MORRISON’S ENERGY CRISIS
MARK BUTLER MP
New South Wales Liberal Treasurer, Dominic Perrottet, has joined the ever growing chorus of experts, business and industry groups, even the head of the Public Service, pleading for an end to Scott Morrison’s energy crisis and a return to bipartisan energy policy with the National Energy Guarantee.
Mr Perrottet reiterated his state’s support for the National Energy Guarantee while warning energy security is the “biggest challenge of our time”.
Every state and territory, Liberal and Labor alike, want an end to this energy crisis and a return to the National Energy Guarantee – yet Angus Taylor won’t even set a date for the now long-overdue COAG Energy Council; a meeting that is supposed to happen at a minimum twice annually but hasn’t occurred since Mr Taylor’s disastrous last meeting in December 2018.
This is the worst energy crisis Australia has seen since the 1970’s and it has resulted in wholesale power prices rising by 158 per cent since 2015 while reliability risks grow.
Australian households and businesses deserve price relief which only real national energy policy will deliver but the Prime Minister and Energy Minister are only interested in nuclear fantasies.
Mr Perrottet reiterated his state’s support for the National Energy Guarantee while warning energy security is the “biggest challenge of our time”.
Every state and territory, Liberal and Labor alike, want an end to this energy crisis and a return to the National Energy Guarantee – yet Angus Taylor won’t even set a date for the now long-overdue COAG Energy Council; a meeting that is supposed to happen at a minimum twice annually but hasn’t occurred since Mr Taylor’s disastrous last meeting in December 2018.
This is the worst energy crisis Australia has seen since the 1970’s and it has resulted in wholesale power prices rising by 158 per cent since 2015 while reliability risks grow.
Australian households and businesses deserve price relief which only real national energy policy will deliver but the Prime Minister and Energy Minister are only interested in nuclear fantasies.