The Climate, Environment and Energy Thread

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You keep making these claims but there's zero evidence to back them up.  Do you really think that AGL, Origin, etc don't have a handle on the global supply chain?

The owners of the coal-fired power stations are shutting them down under shareholder pressure.  That's mainly because they're becoming uneconomical, gas-fired power generation is a cheaper and better medium term alternative and renewables are by far the cheapest long term solution for Australia.

They are acting based on the immediate economics, subsidies and investor relations.

When the targets aren't reached a decade or two from now, it won't be those companies or executives in the firing line, it'll be blamed on politicians, and in any case when the fixes are needed the executives who raised the funds will be long gone bonuses in hand living a quiet comfortable Alan Joyce style retirement!

They can make whatever claims they like, the claims will make bugger all difference 10 or 20 years from now!

btw., I hope you are not denying there is a supply chain issue, there are a lot of workers currently being made redundant simply because installers cannot get SolarPV panels or Wind turbines. Australia is a long long way down the pecking order for most international suppliers.