Chris Bowen’s goal of meeting Australia’s climate targets by 2030 collides with Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek’s role protecting the ecosystem from large developments.
Onerous environmental regulations are delaying Australia’s ambitious renewable rollout and threatening the federal government’s climate commitments, with just two wind farms approved in the past 15 months under flagship green protection laws.
“Onshore wind needs to do the heavy lifting in the national electricity market, and we need a lot more onshore wind to meet our generation capacity requirements.” But the speed with which the government needs renewable energy to come online is clashing with the environmental assessments such projects must undergo.
Australia’s extinction rate is one of the worst in the world, with about 100 of Australia’s unique flora and fauna species wiped out since colonisation, and 1900 threatened species now at a heightened risk of extinction. Plibersek has promised to halt native species extinctions. “There is absolutely no need, on our over-cleared continent, to damage nature to build renewable energy projects.”
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