Queensland Nationals demand action on energy before federal election

Six Queensland Nationals have demanded Michael McCormack and Angus Taylor take “immediate action” to underwrite new power station construction in regional Queensland, and pass the “big stick” package in the final sitting week of the 45th parliament.

 Six Queensland Nationals have written to Angus Taylor
and Michael McCormack demanding ‘immediate action’
on new power station construction. 

George Christensen, Michelle Landry, Ken O’Dowd, Keith Pitt, Llew O’Brien and Barry O’Sullivan have fired an internal warning shot across the bow of the Nationals leader by demanding that McCormack insist the Liberals take concrete action on energy before the coming election.

Revealing the scope of internal frustration with McCormack and with the Liberals, including Taylor, the energy minister, the six Nationals have told their leader, in a letter seen by Guardian Australia, that they are under siege about high energy prices in their electorates.

They say “everyday consumers are at their wits’ end” because they cannot afford “such exorbitant energy costs” and the government needs to deliver both new supply and divestiture powers, because “without divestiture powers, in our view, no action can be taken which would cause Queensland Labor to reduce power prices”.

Read the story from The Guardian by Katharine Murphy - “Queensland Nationals demand action on energy before federal election.”

(Ignoring the facts about climate change and encouraging the construction of a new coal plant is simply wrong and so if Australia is to have any real chance of surviving the quickly unfolding dilemmas we need to devote all or time, effort and money to put Australia on a totally renewable energy journey - Robert McLean)