“Cannon-Brookes is just another green ideologue, quite frankly,” he says. “Cannon-Brookes and co and the state ministers in Victoria in particular, they won’t even hear, won’t listen, to any rational argument about the need to keep baseload generators in service,” he says.“Investors in carbon capture and storage have been scared off. The future of energy has become a prisoner of ideology, as opposed to science and economics. From an industry and scientific point of view, what’s happening is utterly predictable,” he says.“We are even losing the argument on hydrogen because it’s made from brown coal – people like Andrew Forrest mount a continued argument against it. It’s complete nonsense.”Engie Hazelwood battery project with the Fluence Gen 6 battery cubes. Eamon GallagherBut there are optimists, even within the industry.Tony Wolfe is a senior operator…
Clean energy future or Cannon-Brookes’ fairytale? Workers at the coal face left in the dark
