Of further interest from the Old Dart, is this:

"Studies show every green job created caused two useful jobs to go away, or possibly even four. In Scotland the VERSO study showed for each Green job created, 3.7 were lost. When electricity costs more, every other business in the country makes less, does less or has less money to pay workers."

What we really need to be doing in Australia is not arguing about different types of energy, but accepting that climate change is a natural phenomenon, and adapting to nature, which is much more powerful than we are; and, by using the cheap power source we are blessed with to employ the consequent wealth generated to deal with change.

Government spending of money on a few rent-seekers and consumers at huge cost to the public has merely raised the price of electricity to alarming levels; and the effect on climate change has been? ….. bugger-all.