“This is a coal policy. What’s being announced is an expensive ‘coal-keeper’ policy.”Setting aside that this attack line is hardly fresh – the SEC has used it under various guises since 2021 – listeners, and later, the ABC’s online readers, weren’t given any context about Smith’s organisation.
That’s no crime. Naturally, the renewable energy sector deserves its own representation. But you have to respect the plainness of the Australian Banking Association, or the Australian Coal Association. They say what they do on the tin.The Smart Energy Council – with its aggressive anti-nuclear stance – has sumptuous top-spin. Smart energy? Duh, who would want dumb energy?!Before the 2022 federal election, the SEC got into hot water.
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