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Government Intervention Responsible For Energy Price Hikes

Government Intervention Responsible For Energy Price Hikes

Kurt Wallace 16 August 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

A Greens-led bill to prohibit government funding of coal-fired power in Australia has been slammed as a reckless ideological tactic, which would cause significant and irreparable economic damage...

IPA TODAY
Greens Only Want To Make Power Less Affordable

Greens Only Want To Make Power Less Affordable

Kurt Wallace 16 August 2019 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

A Greens-backed bill prohibiting government funding of coal-fired power in Australia would further worsen Australia’s electricity crisis. Government intervention in the energy market has seen...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
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Delayed Adani Approval Highlights Australia’s Red Tape Crisis

Delayed Adani Approval Highlights Australia’s Red Tape Crisis

Daniel Wild 13 June 2019 Dignity of work, Ipa today,

“The delays to the Adani coal project caused by red tape, regulation, and government-enabled green activism must never be allowed to happen again to a resources project in Australia,” said Daniel...

PUBLICATIONS
ScoMo, Scrap Snowy 2.0

ScoMo, Scrap Snowy 2.0

Daniel Wild 6 September 2018 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

Only politicians could think it’s a good idea to spend billions of dollars pumping water uphill to generate electricity in a land with enough coal to last 1,000 years. Yet that is exactly what the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
PUBLICATIONS
Australia Must Withdraw From Paris

Australia Must Withdraw From Paris

Daniel Wild 30 August 2018 Climate change, Energy and resources,

“The Morrison Government must put Australians ahead of European bureaucrats and withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement”, said Daniel Wild, Research Fellow at the free market think tank the...

IPA TODAY
Power Policy Prioritises Expensive Green Goals

Power Policy Prioritises Expensive Green Goals

Daniel Wild 26 June 2018 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

The key lesson of recent wrangling over energy policy is this: if it sounds like a tax and looks like a tax, then it probably is a tax. The National Energy Guarantee (NEG) is the government’s...

Originally appeared in The Daily Telegraph
IPA TODAY
Removal of NT Fracking Ban Good For Australia

Removal of NT Fracking Ban Good For Australia

Daniel Wild 17 April 2018 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

“The decision by the Northern Territory government to lift the ban on the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of onshore gas will create jobs, drive down energy prices, and boost economic...

$150 Million For 6 Minutes Of Work – Why Not?

$150 Million For 6 Minutes Of Work – Why Not?

Brett Hogan 7 July 2017 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

Less than a day after the news that shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors are down 20% on their peak as questions start to mount about the company’s ability to successfully deliver quality products...

PUBLICATIONS
What Will They Finkel Next?

What Will They Finkel Next?

Brett Hogan 20 June 2017 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

The greatest contribution the Finkel Review makes to Australian public policy may, in fact, be a new verb. From June 2017, to ‘finkel’ will be a term to describe how a government sets up an...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Media Releases
More Renewables Will Not Solve The Renewables Problem – Finkel Review

More Renewables Will Not Solve The Renewables Problem – Finkel Review

Brett Hogan 9 June 2017 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

The recommendations of today’s Finkel Review into the Future Security of the National Electricity Market, if accepted by government, will ensure that electricity prices continue to rise with...

Opinion
Budget 2017: Energy Policy’s Gushing Wounds Won’t Be Fixed With A Mop And Bucket

Budget 2017: Energy Policy’s Gushing Wounds Won’t Be Fixed With A Mop And Bucket

Brett Hogan 12 May 2017 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

If you had a wound that was gushing blood onto the floor and your doctor prescribed a mop and bucket, you’d ask where he got his practicing certificate and why he wasn’t fixing the actual problem...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
Like It Or Not, Coal Is Still King

Like It Or Not, Coal Is Still King

Brett Hogan 23 March 2017 Energy and resources, Ipa today,

On Wednesday, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club and CoalSwarm released the 2017 edition of Boom and Bust: Tracking the Global Coal Plant Pipeline, a publication that helpfully tallies up all of the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
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