Is Angus Taylor on a one-man mission to stop wind and solar?

Even before he entered parliament, federal energy minister Angus Taylor was on a mission to stop the Australian wind and solar industry.

Angus Taylor - on a one-man mission to stop
 the Australina wind and solar industry.

He appeared, and was hailed a hero, at an anti-wind rally hosted by the backers of an anonymous and rather nasty website called “Stop These Things”, and after he entered parliament in 2013 he fought unsuccessfully to have the renewable energy target scrapped altogether. Instead, it was merely chopped by a third.

As a newly appointed energy minister last year, Taylor declared there was already too much wind and solar in the Australian grid, and claimed that having too much wind and solar would lead to the “de-industrialisation” of Australia’s economy.

Read the RenewEconomy story by Giles Parkinson - “Is Angus Taylor on a one-man mission to stop wind and solar?”