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Hidden Cost of Climate Change Policies and Renewables
August 2020
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.
Renewable subsidies: destroyers of low cost electricity supplies
Presented to the September 2018 conference: The Basic Science of a Changing Climate held in Porto
In meeting targets agreed at the 2002 Kyoto Convention, the precursor to the Paris Agreement, Australia, by preventing land clearance, reduced emissions by 100 million tonnes a year of CO2 equivalent. Comprising almost 20 per cent of total emissions, this reduction allowed Australia to claim that there had been a
Summary for Policy Makers: Submission to the 2017 Review of Climate Change Policies
2017 Review of Climate Change Policies
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,
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
Submission into Inquiry on Impacts of Climate Changes on Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity
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,
Submission into Inquiry on Impacts of Climate Changes on Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity
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,
Hidden Cost of Climate Change Policies and Renewables
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
Summary for Policy Makers: Submission to the 2017 Review of Climate Change Policies
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
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 into Inquiry on Impacts of Climate Changes on Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity
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
Submission to Senate Committee on Windfarms
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
Submission to Senate on Windfarms - Transcript of hearing
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
Submission to Senate on Windfarms - Supplementary evidence
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
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