Stop trying to play God: Twiggy on the attack over green future
Mining magnate Andrew “Twiggy”” Forrest has attacked Energy Minister Angus Taylor for standing in the road of Australia’s energy future and for being deluded enough to think he was God.
In an address to the Queensland Media Club, Forrest said Australia was at a pivotal moment in history and the Federal Government was standing in the way of both the market and climate change science.
He also said the threat Russia posed to the world meant Australia had to become energy independent and it could only do that sustainably through renewable hydrogen.
He said he would make an announcement on Sunday, in Gladstone, that would accelerate Australia towards energy independence.
That was likely to relate to his already announced hydrogen catalyser plant where he was turning the first sod this weekend.
He also said he had high confidence that Incitecās Gibson Island ammonia plant could be transformed as a hydrogen business.
āThe economics are finally on our side,ā he said.
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But he said the Federal Government and Angus Taylor were standing in the way of progress through their support of the coal industry.
āTaylor (has) strong rear vision glasses ā¦ studiously supporting fossil fuels. He is standing in the road of both the market and the concluded science of climate change.
āThis rear vision loyalty is standing in the road of Australiaās real and proper destiny, a destiny of becoming a pollution-free nation exporting pollution-free products on a scale that would dwarf the iron ore industry.
āI donāt play politics but I will call out policy that is not supported by science.ā
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He said the Government was supporting failed technology in carbon capture and storage, or clean coal and this was where Angus Taylor felt he was God.
āWhatās the difference between Angus Taylor and God? The answer is God doesnāt think he is Angus Taylor.ā
Forrest said the events in Russia showed Australia must become fully energy independent.
āThe Federal Government says we can ride this one out with adequate supplies of oil and gas.
āMaybe we will this time but what if we donāt?
āAre you willing to gamble your future and your childrensā future on the whims of Putin.
āWe cannot and we must not keep relying on foreign fuel imports to keep our country running.
āWe must create our own energy from our own land from the wind and the sun and build new ecosystems that is fed purely by 100 per cent renewables.
āGreen hydrogen and green ammonia can fully replace every form of fossil fuel and employment demand will be greater than what we have now.ā
He said he had also looked over the possibility of buying AGL and regarded the proposal by Brookfield and Mike Cannon-Brookes as a āreally clever acquisitionā.
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