{"id":5025,"date":"2015-09-15T14:10:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T04:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:50:51","slug":"will-turnbull-practice-what-he-has-preached-about-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/will-turnbull-practice-what-he-has-preached-about-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Turnbull Practice What He Has Preached about Solar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5026\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maclom-on-solar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maclom-on-solar.jpg\" alt=\"malcolm turnbull and solar panels\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maclom-on-solar.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/maclom-on-solar-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malcolm Turnbull talks the talk but has consistently voted strongly against increasing investment in renewable energy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The quote above comes from a video of Malcolm Turnbull giving a speech to launch the Beyond Zero Emissions Stationary Energy Plan in Sydney in 2010. The plan was (and still is) <a href=\"https:\/\/bze.org.au\/zero-carbon-australia\/stationary-energy-plan\">a blueprint<\/a> to affordably go to \u00a0100% renewables in Australia within 10 years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The video is here. The whole 10 mins are worth a watch. The quote above is at 7:55.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Malcolm Turnbull speaking at the launch of the BZE Stationary Energy Plan, Sydney Town Hall\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/68tJXvn7cjk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Watching the video you can be in no doubt that our new PM passionately believes the climate change is an urgent issue, and that renewables are a big part of the answer.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately if you look at Malcolm&#8217;s actions, <a href=\"https:\/\/theyvoteforyou.org.au\/people\/representatives\/wentworth\/malcolm_turnbull\/policies\/20\">he has consistently voted against <\/a>supporting the very renewables he professes to support so strongly.<\/p>\n<p>Whist in cabinet he voted to abolish both the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australian_Renewable_Energy_Agency\">Australian Renewable Energy Agency<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clean_Energy_Finance_Corporation\">Clean Energy Finance Corporation<\/a>, both of which were set up to help technologies like large scale solar thermal get to commercial scale.<\/p>\n<p>In fact since 2006, out of 7 relevant votes, he voted 6 times\u00a0against investing in renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Bloody two-faced pollies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quote above comes from a video of Malcolm Turnbull giving a speech to launch the Beyond Zero Emissions Stationary Energy Plan in Sydney in 2010. 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Just as the Australian election was drifting off into the sunset, we get hit by the arrival of an enormous, loud and dangerous elephant in the room. 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