Greenhouse Major Publications:

Australia’s excessively high energy prices are undermining our economic resilience and competitiveness and cutting our standards of living. Since 2002 Australian governments, in a misguided quest to reduce carbon dioxide, have introduced climate policies at the expense of cheap coal and gas power. Our electricity prices, once the lowest in the world, have become one of the most expensive.

August 2020

30 June 2017

Impacts on the Australian Economy and Australian Consumers

9 May 2017

AEF joined 41 other think tanks who joined together in a letter to Donald Trump urging him to withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Change Treaty

Pursuit of policies designed to supress emissions of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” is severely harming the Australian economy with no compensatory environmental benefits. We address this in the context of energy, land clearing and forestry. In the case of energy, measures taken to suppress carbon dioxide emissions have been centred on regulations to promote renewable electricity supply (especially wind and solar). These have, over the past 15 years, transformed Australia from havin

2017 Review of Climate Change Policies

4 May 2017

Pursuit of policies designed to supress emissions of carbon dioxide and other “greenhouse gases” is severely harming the Australian economy with no compensatory environmental benefits. We address this in the context of energy, land clearing and forestry. In the case of energy, measures taken to suppress carbon dioxide emissions have been centred on regulations to promote renewable electricity supply (especially wind and solar). These have, over the past 15 years, transformed Australia from havin

Submission to the Australian Senate Environment and Communications Reference Committee, October 2016

Summary Australia’s fishing industry has greatly underperformed both in the catch of wild fish and in aquaculture. Australia could easily accommodate a tenfold expansion of aquaculture, currently worth $1 billion a year. It is prevented from doing so by the regulatory intrusions. It is barely conceivable that human induced climate change, if it is taking place, could have an effect on fish numbers in the oceans – fish swim and plants also migrate in response to changing conditions. If there were

Submitted to Senate Committee, 12 January 2015

Introduction and Summary: I confine my remarks to the first of the terms of reference, that which addresses the economic effects of windfarms. These effects work through higher electricity prices and through taxes paid to subsidise windpower’s intrinsically high cos

MORAN, Dr Alan John, Chief Executive Officer, Regulation Economics [10:42] Evidence was taken via teleconference— CHAIR: I welcome Dr Alan Moran from Regulation Economics via teleconference. Could you please confirm that the information on parliamentary privilege and the protection of witnesses and evidence has been provided to you. Dr Moran: Yes, it has. CHAIR: The committee has your submission. I now invite you to make a short opening statement. At the conclusion of your remarks, I will invite

Transcript of hearing - 2015

May 2014

Renewable energy in the form of wind and solar, the two major subsidised supply types, remains non- commercial, at threefold the cost of electricity sourced from coal.

Response to written questions on notice for Dr Alan Moran – Regulation Economics from Senator Anne Urquhart 1. In your testimony, you said that work done on fossil fuel subsidies by Treasury has indicated any subsidies are trivial (Hansard, p.24). Can you direct the committee to this work? The following reference http://www.oecd.org/site/tadffss/AUSdata.xls to an OECD review that Treasury oversights shows no support from Australia for coal other than for “clean coal”. If there are doubts about t

January 2015