All renewables and nothing else ‘will’ end in ‘disaster’

Shadow Environment Minister Jonathon Duniam discusses whether New South Wals Labor’s deal with Origin Energy to keep the Eraring coal-fired power station open for an additional two years will need to be extended beyond the agreed-upon period of 2027. “Households across Australia, businesses across Australia need to have certainty around energy reliability, and their decision today to extend Eraring by two years to 2027 recognises that,” he told Sky News Australia. “Ruling out things like nuclear as they have, spuriously pointing to reasons why not rather than opening up for debate on whether we should have nuclear as part of the mix, I think that would be the mature approach. “Sadly, we don’t have that – it is all renewables and nothing else, and that will end in disaster.”