Regional seats often held for or swung to the LNP. The election results aren’t as much of a glowing endorsement for renewables as you suggest. Still, it is rich for that statement to be coming from the Nationals, considering that their long history of lies about renewables are partly to blame for the loss of their social license.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Has renewable energy really lost its social license?
Farmers don’t like wind because all their neighbours are putting up noisy turbines.
Meanwhile every house in my street has solar because it’s a no-brainer.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 4 days ago
Advance Australia has been committing millions to whipping up a frothing frenzy against wind, solar and batteries in rural communities.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/…/105062600
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-20/…/105309810
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-10/…/105155280
theguardian.com/…/canberra-reckless-renewables-ra…
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I’m not familiar with them so I looked them up. First sentence on the ‘Our Story’ page: “In 2018, woke politicians and elitist activist groups …”
That’s enough. [close tab] Fucking bigots.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Bakers Delight donated to them.
Probably more companies to, but Bakers Delight has been the most inconvenient. I haven’t been able to find good bread anywhere else (or indeed, even at Bakers Delight these days).
Almacca@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I don’t know why solar isn’t mandatory for all new constructions.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Rooftop solar causes some issues for the grid and especially with every person getting their own battery it’s not very efficient.
On rural properties it would make sense to mandate them, but it would also be political suicide.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Aren’t the issues it causes mostly because the grid was designed to deliver power from plants?
I mean, aren’t they solvable problems?