After the first night of the ongoing, horrendously violent storm in South Australia, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull decided to join in on the factually-lite, extremely tenuous implication that the entire state of South Australia lost its power because they use too much renewable energy.
While he admitted renewable energy was not the ~primary~ cause (Read: it wasn’t the cause), he decided to call the SA blackout “a wake-up call” for state leaders who were trying to hit “completely unrealistic” renewable targets.
“We’ve got to recognise that energy security is the key priority and targeting lower emissions is very important but it must be consistent with energy security.”Let’s focus now and take this storm in South Australia … as a real wake-up call, let’s end the ideology, focus on a clear renewable target.”
But, the cause of the blackout was damage to a number of transmission line assets, because the insane weather literally knocked over towers and lines.
Plus, this is all being said while South Aussies are having an incredibly scary time with no power, feeling as though the wind is about going to knock their house down.
A Very Good Idea: politicise a barely-related topic while people are genuinely terrified for their safety & homes.
And up with this, VIC Premier Daniel Andrews will not bloody put.
He went on ABC Radio this morning, and called Turnbull the hell out for sounding just like Tony Abbott.
“The poles and wires had blown over.The prime minister has conflated two issues. This sort of ignorant rubbish, which I don’t think any South Australian would have appreciated in the midst of natural disaster.His commentary yesterday, well Tony Abbott could have said it, it could have come from Tony Abbott, but I thought Malcolm Turnbull was a slightly different leader.And what’s more, I don’t think Tony Abbott would have said it in the midst of one of the most significant events South Australians have had to deal with for a very long time.”
That’s some cold, hard, shiny truth right there.
Source: The Guardian.
