Asked if the government would consider using the NEG to reduce emissions, he said: "We don't need to." He said another feature of the guarantee, a reliability obligation on electricity generators, would come into force as planned on July 1.
"We've been clear that we'll bring as much supply and competition into the market that we need to get back to a reasonable wholesale price," he said. "Coal has a role to play in our energy mix. Renewables are playing an increasing role, so whichever way you look at it there will be balance," Mr Taylor said.
"I am neither a climate sceptic nor am I a market sceptic when it comes to action on climate change, because I have listened to business and sat down with them," he said. "But the time for the ongoing conflict over these issues surely is over." "The comments I made earlier this year were tone deaf and I regret them and I was apologising for them within a couple of days of making them," he told radio station 3AW."Coal clearly is going to play a significant part of the future energy mix in Australia and it's clearly going to be a significant part of our economy," he said.
CroweDM Even if they didn’t have a mandate
CroweDM Won’t budge on doing nothing? Is that a tautology?
CroweDM No AngusTaylorMP you do NOT have a clear mandate! We want our $80 mill back! auspol watergate FederalICACNow
CroweDM Thanks silent Australians.
CroweDM Not unless you are found guilty of misappropriation of government funds.
CroweDM But the LNP don't have a plan. Hang on that is the plan
CroweDM They are morally reprehensible and also either incredibly stupid or incredibly apathetic about the damage they are doing locally and globally.
CroweDM Won't be around for long.
CroweDM Why should they budge? A noisy minority have been hijacking the show for years.
CroweDM p_hannam The automatic response of nature to our CO2 emissions will force us what we have to do, not opinions of voters and politicians. When will AngusTaylorMP understand the laws of nature are not negotiable and self-enforcing
CroweDM It is time this generation were told climate change has been going on for 4.3 billion years and will not stop no matter what we stupid humans do. Our contribution to greenhouse gases is practically zero. Our immediate need is pollution control.
CroweDM Garbage
CroweDM Finally I think we are going to balance our energy mix to include all the different energy types. High prices kill and that’s a fact.
CroweDM Great they can start calling it Weather again and it changes every day
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CroweDM When some people call for 'bi-partisanship', they mean genuinely taking party politics out of potentially divisive issues to achieve positive outcomes without the pain of division. Others are still playing party politics! auspol emissions simonahac
CroweDM This is the sort of arrogance is just what it was hoped ScottMorrisonMP would avoid. Started with JoshFrydenberg refusing to consider NEG. Not a good start and beginning to make people regret voting billshortenmp out
CroweDM Good 👍.
CroweDM You don't have a mandate for any policies you goose!
CroweDM After reading the smh & noting Julie Bishop’s input on election night, I am of the opinion Julie Bishop does not have much going on upstairs & should go out to pasture!
CroweDM Mind you Angus has buckleys of ever entering the Lodge😄
CroweDM Scomo watch your back with Et Tu Angus😂😂
CroweDM And the 3rd day he rose from the dead to sit at the right hand of Morrison The Commander in Chief😂
CroweDM Climate warming paranoia has peaked. Only works in privileged electorates. Green vegan Left/globalist media/UN bureaucrats losing credibility.
CroweDM There is no clear mandate. Only if there had been a climate change referendum with the appropriate question, can it be said that a clear mandate has been given.
CroweDM Check the amount of lefties kissing the planet goodbye over the conservatives getting elected. How can people be so utterly stupid?
CroweDM I doubt that mandate is water tight AngusTaylorMP
CroweDM I want my grandsons to have a planet to grow old on!
CroweDM Return the money.
CroweDM You have a mandate to resolve close out the questions and reasoning. Not to ‘just do it’. Governance is part of the role of Government. Remember that.
CroweDM Now Walk the Walk & Build 2 o3 HELI Coal Fired Plants at Existing sites !
CroweDM (Face palm)
CroweDM Ask Bill & Chris about mandates; they were very articulate on the subject prior to the election.
CroweDM Which school did he go to?
CroweDM AngusTaylorMP that mandate includes the promised tax cuts from 1 July that was campaigned on only 2 weeks ago. ScottMorrisonMP you can’t claim a mandate on one and not the other auspol
CroweDM Sorry! Policies? I must have missed that one....
CroweDM How good is AngusTaylorMP 😂 Mandate my arse. The only thing you have a mandate for is to deliver the tax reform the LiberalAus promised. How about you get that right first CayMan
CroweDM Nice knowing you Earth.
CroweDM Shouldn't that be 'We have a clear mandate to lie to our back teeth'? That's the only mandate that can be fathomed from the election result. Or, 'We can keep lying, because our mindless supporters don't care what Labor & Green supporters think.' We only govern for LNP supporters.
CroweDM what s clear is that you are an enemy of all living things.
CroweDM Yes you have a mandate to deliver tax cuts by 1st July as was promised over and over If you break that unwritten promise to the electorate then you've broken your contract with voters the whole deal is off the table
CroweDM A mandate with NO plan is still NO PLAN.
CroweDM Climate change is a Global issue Australia Is playing it’s part with a 26% Emission reduction target China & India “increasing” their Emission USA, NO Emission reduction target
CroweDM Is there a Murdoch newspaper in the Cayman Islands?
CroweDM AngusTaylor lied about emissions & kept a low profile during an election which resulted in a narrow win for the LNP - hardly grounds for claiming a ‘mandate’! If Frydenberg had taken a bi-partisan approach with the NEG, we wouldn’t be in this mess. auspol energy
CroweDM The only mandate you have is to continue doing nothing... which I'm sure you'll get straight onto.
CroweDM How good is Tim Wilson? Tim is so good he's outsmarted even himself! The transfer to free cash from franking credits will blow the budget to smithereens! How dumb is Tim Wilson?
CroweDM LNP ran a presidential campaign said absolutely nothing provided almost zero policy lied heads off but have a mandate. Take note that half the country less a little bit did not vote for the entire coalition of Libs Nats One Nation Palmer and every other RW nut job party
CroweDM What got you over the line was the death tax lie. Yes, you have a mandate not to introduce a death tax, little else.
CroweDM No LNP only just got over the line No mandate from 48% of electorate What is the climate plan again? More of do nothing More emissions More lies and dodgy deals More filling their own pockets and those of friends.
CroweDM Oh dear. Ill informed and paranoiac rule the left obviously. The policy is the same as before the election dear pets. Stick to the Paris targets. One way to ensure 26m people don't pay for the sins of 6 Billion.
CroweDM Stop bothering with the scam would be a good start
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CroweDM They (the Coalition) have to appreciate that winning an election by being the least worst candidate does not automatically signal nor support a mandate for each and every policy and promise put forward in the battle to float to the top of the cess pool of politics.
CroweDM Angus retweeting: Very good Angus. Very good!
CroweDM The indoctrinated all hiss loudly on cue.
CroweDM what plan
CroweDM 1. An election win is never a mandate for any one policy that party has. 2. The market never solves societal issues, it just goes where the money. 3. Climate deniers are either very ignorant, stupid or have a vested financial interest in continuing to adversely affect the climate
CroweDM Yes you would, if you had bothered to tell us what it was before the election
CroweDM A rigged election does not deliver a mandate
CroweDM Dinasours.