Malcolm Turnbull says Government energy policy is 'crazy stuff'
Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Government's focus on a gas-led economic recovery is "a fantasy" and "crazy stuff" that should not be part of the Coalition's energy policy.
The Government has also threatened to intervene and build a new gas power plant in NSW unless industry can meet its demands for more reliable power, and Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been promoting a gas-led recovery out of the coronavirus recession."This is crazy stuff," he said. He said no amount of "patronising mansplaining" would change the fact gas was not as cheap as his former colleagues were claiming.Energy has long been a policy area which puts the ideological differences within the Coalition on full display and has proven deeply challenging for leaders in the past.
"The idea that you crash the economy by cutting your emissions is just again, that's ideology taking the place of what should be sound environmental and economic policy," he said.
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