A recovery should, if the science is respected as it is with COVID, transition Australia to 100 per cent clean energy, create thousands of clean jobs, boost the economy, and bring Australia's emissions down. A recovery that would make Australia a renewable energy superpower.
Despite the scientific, economic and health evidence that we must decarbonise rapidly, the government is planning a vast increase in fossil fuels. They have no plan to transition away from coal, and no plan to close down coal-fired power stations, although they will anyway because they are getting old.
There are a staggering 22 new gas projects, starting with three vast areas - the Beetaloo Basin in the Territory, and the North Bowen and Galilee Basins in Queensland. In NSW, there are plans for enormous volumes of gas to be extracted just off the coastline between Newcastle and Sydney."
Read the complete Bellingen Courier Sun Opinion piece by Harry Creamer.
COVID-19 has impacted all sectors and hence relief efforts for students, industries and businesses by the governments and non-profits are extremely needed and highly appreciated. It is also very important to assess some parameters like energy usage, expenditure, employment rate, etc pre and post COVID. Utility app development companies and energy industry solutions companies are starting to perform analysis of these parameters PRE and POST COVID to formulate a report and study the effects of COVID-19 on businesses and industries.
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