Why the Right won't eat their greens
Climate SpectatorSilex Systems CEO Michael Goldsworthy could hardly contain his frustration this week after announcing the closure of Australia’s only solar cells manufacturing facility – at a cost of 30 jobs at the company’s Homebush plant in Sydney.
The solar cells division was already struggling against the price and volume of overseas producers, and the rising Australian dollar, but Goldsworthy has no doubt that the killer blow came in the policy vacuum on the future of solar tariffs, particularly in NSW, where the industry has been brought to a standstill. It has made it impossible for his company to make forward investment decisions. All of Australia’s clean energy developers, indeed the entire energy industry, understands this problem well.
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Like Ayres, and many others, Goldsworthy says there appears to be animosity towards green technology.
“We have got better sun than any other country, but there seems to be a philosophical opposition at the moment to solar power,” he told Climate Spectator. “It is just inconceivable – we have Coalition governments being elected in NSW, Victoria, and WA leading the charge to scale back any support for renewables, And we know the federal Coalition is less disposed to renewables and the whole climate change issue.”
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