A new senate submission from the Page Research Centre was featured in the Australian.
“Rarely, if ever, have I met an advocate for renewables who doesn’t stand to benefit financially from the expansion of the green industry in this country, including some in the parliament…
One of the submissions to this inquiry – from the Page Research Centre (loosely aligned with the National Party) – details the way extreme green elements have run a decades-long campaign not just to demonise fossil fuels with voters but to intimidate financial institutions out of any investments in those industries vital to Australia’s prosperity.
The head of the Page Research Centre, Gerard Holland, denounces this as the “big lie”, taken for granted by much of our media, that “renewables are the cheapest form of energy”.
Holland reports that “more than $170m was spend in FY23-24 alone to destroy the social licence of cheap coal power, head off any picot towards nuclear energy, and promote a rapid transition to renewables”. He notes that “much of this money came from overseas” and it represents more than Labor and the Coalition spent combined at the May election.”
