Scott Morrison is all talk and no climate action.
His latest thought bubble of a “technology target” is just a throwback to the Howard era when he and George W Bush rejected emissions reduction targets in the Kyoto Protocol in favour of a so-called “technology approach” which boosted nuclear power and so-called “clean coal.”
The Morrison Government has no credibility when it comes to clean technology.
The Prime Minister said electric vehicles would “end the weekend” and they wouldn’t “tow your trailer. It's not going to tow your boat. It's not going to get you out to your favourite camping spot with your family."
The Resources Minister Keith Pitt has said “solar panels and lithium batteries … could turn out to be this generation’s asbestos.”
The Energy Minister Angus Taylor is a known anti-wind campaigner, who was the poster boy for the "National Wind Power Fraud Rally".
The former Resources Minister Matt Canavan said a hydrogen industry is “snake oil”.
We’re not going to take lectures on technology from a Government whose plan for the future of telecommunications was a copper network for the NBN.
Of course technology is the key to lowering emissions, but industry has made it clear that the take-up of new technology requires a serious energy and climate policy.
This is something the Morrison Government will never deliver as long as the hard-right climate deniers continue to run the show on climate policy.