{"id":31190,"date":"2025-10-02T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/?p=31190"},"modified":"2025-10-03T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:54:24","slug":"former-actu-leader-issues-warning-on-costs-of-renewables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/2025\/10\/former-actu-leader-issues-warning-on-costs-of-renewables\/","title":{"rendered":"FORMER ACTU LEADER  ISSUES WARNING ON COSTS OF RENEWABLES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An energy transition based on intermittent intermittent weather, regardless of emerging problems. The 2035 targets are politically determined, set at 62-70 per cent, even though Labor&#8217;s 2030 target won&#8217;t be met. Setting higher targets can&#8217;t mask the fundamental problems of a target driven transition. It will satisfy an international audience but will fail our domestic needs. Our economy can&#8217;t be powered by intermittent, weather dependent renewables, nor are they the cheapest form of energy when whole of system costs are included. That&#8217;s why the government refuses to release full costings. Without Billions in taxpayer funded subsidies and relief packages, labor&#8217;s transition would have collapsed and still may. It&#8217;s magic pudding economics &#8221; Jennie George former ACTU chief.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31211\" style=\"width: 672px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31211\" class=\" wp-image-31211\" src=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wind-Turbine-Collapses-in-Western-Victoria.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"662\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wind-Turbine-Collapses-in-Western-Victoria.avif 862w, https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wind-Turbine-Collapses-in-Western-Victoria-300x169.avif 300w, https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Wind-Turbine-Collapses-in-Western-Victoria-768x432.avif 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-31211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New\u00a0 Wind Turbine in Western Victoria Collapses in Strong Winds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Large gum trees can withstand strong winds because they are flexible unlike the rigid material uprights of a Wind Turbine which is why you see so many of them collapsing during a storm. Their is no turning back we are now stuck with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An energy transition based on intermittent intermittent weather, regardless of emerging problems. The 2035 targets are politically determined, set at 62-70 per cent, even though Labor&#8217;s 2030 target won&#8217;t be met. Setting higher targets can&#8217;t mask the fundamental problems of a target driven transition. It will satisfy an international audience but will fail our domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31190"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31232,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31190\/revisions\/31232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coherence.com.au\/curlew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}