Tony Abbott targets renewables subsidies in latest energy intervention

Tony Abbott has reignited his push to scrap subsidies for renewable energy, taking on the new energy minister, Angus Taylor, at his first meeting of the government’s backbench energy and environment committee on Tuesday.

Tony Abbott asked a number of questions about the
future of subsidies for renewable energy at a
backbench committee meeting.

Sources at Tuesday’s meeting have told Guardian Australia that the former prime minister, who joined the backbench committee as a voting member just before Malcolm Turnbull was deposed as part of efforts to sink the national energy guarantee, asked a number of questions about the future of subsidies for renewable energy, both for rooftop solar and the renewable energy target – but Taylor was not drawn.

During the discussion, the minister made the point that the schemes were in the process of winding down.

Read Katharine Murphy’s story from The Guardian - “Tony Abbott targets renewables subsidies in latest energy intervention.”

(Maybe Mr Abbott could also push for the scrapping of government subsidies for fossil fuels - Robert McLean)