Settling in to livetweet #4Corners right now, thread below
https://twitter.com/4corners/status/1381555192601149442
.@m_brisso asks "Why is the government so insistent on ignoring the dissenters" - that is, almost everyone - "and pushing ahead" with gas subsidies ?
Nev Power, hand picked by the PM, "to solve problems".
A few minutes in, and we are already getting red lines connecting profile pictures in an influence diagram.
A few minutes in, and we are already getting red lines connecting profile pictures in an influence diagram.
Andrew Liveris, specially picked to advise on recovery, said he "tingled with pride" about being picked by Trump in a senior advisory role. #auspol #4Corners
Why was the NCCC obsessed with gas? @barobertson111 says if you chose builders to advise on recovery, they will talk about a house based recovery
Was gas fired recovery pre determined in choice of advisors? Liveris says "I don't know". Angus Taylor refuses to say no #auspol #4corners
.@zoewhitton warns that fossil fuel subsidies risk increasing retaliatory tariffs across the economy #auspol #4Corners
#4Corners overstates the role of gas in manufacturing. Most gas uses little or no gas. See report with @MarkOgge here: australiainstitute.org.au/post/gas-for-e…
#auspol #4corners
#auspol #4corners
End of cheap gas came when gas companies decided to ruthlessly exploit the export market. #4corners #auspol
Tony Wood, former gas executive and energy lead at Grattan, says gas prices will not come down. #auspol #4corners
Santos CEO now says $7-8 . GJ is a sustainable gas price on the east coast. Plus pipeline costs, that is an expensive form of energy #auspol #4corners
Even the GAS LOBBY says that the gas recovery for manufacturing is bollocks. Even the flacks for selling the gas. #4corners #auspol
Most manufacturers use little or no gas. More gas is burnt by the gas industry just to export the gas, to cool it to put it on boats, than is burnt in the ENTIRE manufacturing industry.
#auspol #4Corners
#auspol #4Corners
Santos doesn't just sponsor football. Sometimes, it even sponsors the police. theguardian.com/australia-news…
Santos previously told analysts that half the point of exporting gas was to push domestic prices up. #auspol #4Corners
Why are they pushing ahead with subsidising gas? "Donations... yeah it's pretty simple." @barobertson111
#auspol #4Corners
#auspol #4Corners
(BTW, the political donations fossil fuel companies make in Australia are pathetically small, given the control they have over policy #auspol #4Corners)
LOL Angus Taylor says he gives access to all stakeholders. I personally have been forced to wait half a year just to have a response to an FOI request to his office. #auspol #4Corners
Now we move to the states, which are now acting almost as if the recalcitrant federal government is irrelevant #4Corners #auspol
.@Matt_KeanMP making economically rational statements that seem radical because of the parlous state of national debate.
Why should taxpayers be paying for infrastructure we might not need?
Good question!
Why should taxpayers be paying for infrastructure we might not need?
Good question!
Kerry Schott, head of the government's energy security board, says she does not know why the government keeps pushing ahead with the need for a 1000 MW gas power plant. Refuses to comment on alleged pressure to resign #auspol #4Corners
Head of the Energy Security Board, and head of AEMO, both allegedly pressured by Taylor and his people, to change their expert advice on this.
Taylor refuses to explain why he did this.
#auspol #4Corners
Taylor refuses to explain why he did this.
#auspol #4Corners
Taylor actually doesn't have any choice but leave to vote, but he should have come back to finish the interview. #4Corners #auspol
"Technology is moving way faster than politics" - @m_brisso
From the audience at home, a big "yay!"
#4Corners #auspol
From the audience at home, a big "yay!"
#4Corners #auspol
Also said at the home audience "god we are lucky we have states" "fuck yeah - climate, covid, "
Decisions we make now will determine how we fare in the massive, historically rapid transition under way. #auspol #4Corners
Worth distinguishing here, export vs domestic. All the state ambition is on the latter, and zero on the former. Despite the fact that fossil export states cannot meet their own domestic targets while increasing or maintaining high emission production of fossils for export
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