To the Editor,
The solution to the self-inflicted energy crisis is simple – restore baseload power, the one which the economy of this state was built.
There is a vast amount of coal to supply cheap power for hundreds of years. We have an abundance of reserves of coal, gas and water. And what does the ALP government do? It destroys coal fired generators, taxes them to subsidise expensive, unreliable intermittent renewables.
Anything that would bring prices down the ALP and Greens oppose, including nuclear power. Look at France. The ALP is frustrating Narrabri Gas. They have banned gas exploration in Victoria.
Men like Sir John Monash had the foresight and the skill as head of the State Electricity Commission, to establish coal fired generators and supply network state-wide, which would be still quite functioning today. A pity that energy and electricity was not in the hands of people like Monash, instead of green zealots who wield power well beyond their numbers.
Why doesn’t the opposition have a policy to restore baseload power prices, under baseload. We have gone from one of the world’s cheapest electricity to one of the dearest. People are concerned about the cost-of-living and an opposition that promised to deliver a big reduction in power bills that could be achieved would be a vote winner.
Yours sincerely,
N.T. Sims
Kialla Gardens
