We have a planned $1.5bn wind farm on hold pending RET too–that was to be 600MW or 300 wind towers about 2-3 years work for a company like this–tragic.
Sums it up. A business by all accounts that should be expanding, not closing. All because of ideological politicians unable to accept the industry. Where beliefs come before common sense. Renewables are the transition industry from the collapsed car manufacturing. My thoughts are truly with those who lost their jobs because of this feeble government.
Words fail me – this cabal of fossil fuel criminals need to be stopped, before they wreck Australia for good.
Marg1, you can put it all down to corrupt coal. Professor John Keane spelt it out here;
http://theconversation.com/coal-divestment-and-democracy-31764
There is little more to be said except Australia has been thrown to the back of the queue when it comes to investment in renewable energy. We have a long wait ahead of us.
In 1986, Paul Keating’s said:
“We took the view in the 1970s – it’s the old cargo cult mentality of
Australia that she’ll be right. This is the lucky country, we can dig up
another mound of rock and someone will buy it from us, or we can sell a
bit of wheat and bit of wool and we will just sort of muddle through …
In the 1970s … we became a third world economy selling raw materials and
food and we let the sophisticated industrial side fall apart … If in
the final analysis Australia is so undisciplined, so disinterested in
its salvation and its economic well being, that it doesn’t deal with
these fundamental problems … … Then you are gone. You are a banana
republic.”
Coal will not save the country. Australia must make things, must have a manufacturing industry. Sadly, the renewable industry is about to be sacrificed on the altar of corrupt crony capitalism.