It’s time for politicians to put the national interest ahead of energy ideology

Australians are paying a heavy price for a decade of uncertainty on national energy policy.

Australians are paying a heavy price for a decade
 of uncertainty on national energy policy

As some of our older coal-fired power plants have closed, the investment needed to replace their generation capacity has been stifled. As a result we now pay some of the highest power prices in the world despite having an abundance of energy resources at our disposal.

This investment won’t happen without agreement on our national energy policy direction. In the absence of anything else, agreement on the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) is needed.

Right across NSW, small businesses and larger industries like mining and manufacturing are calling on the Parliament to support the NEG as a way to move forward with a degree of clarity.

Read the comment from The Age by Stephen Galilee - “It’s time for politicians to put the national interest ahead of energy ideology.”

(This comment by Stephen Galilee sounds honourable, but despite his rhetoric, the argument is as ideological as that of any other. At base, it’s about letting the market decide what is best and that ideological belief has taken us for far down a rabbit burrow that it will be difficult, if not impossible to extricate ourselves - Robert McLean)