David Crisafulli vows to axe the worlds largest mega pumped hydro project and to keep QLD’s coal fired power stations open indefinitely if he becomes premier.
David Crisafulli vows to axe the worlds largest mega pumped hydro project and to keep QLD’s coal fired power stations open indefinitely if he becomes premier.
Good. $14B saved on what was going to be Snowy 3.0
CalmTheMcFarm on
Gotta keep Gina happy.
As if I needed any _more_ reasons to put the LNP right down the bottom of the ballot paper.
piraja0 on
The same guy who wanted to open concentration camps for kids…
Bouncingzebra on
LNP announced this in June, unsure why it now pops up here again. Early estimates put the cost at $12bn (+100% or -50%), which means they’ve got absolutely no idea how much it is going to cost. Given that EVERY major Qld Govt construction project over the last 5 years has blown out (in line with pretty much every job in the private sector as well mind you) I’d put the +100% as being an odds on favourite if this goes ahead. So the real question is – if there is an accurate cost benefit analysis done, would this project still get a green light from the ALP? And no before the labor trolls downvote me to oblivion – i’m not anti renewables, far from it.
lazygl on
Net zero by 2500. Apparently it was a typo that led people to believe they were planning to get there by 2050.
CGunners on
The most brain dead thing about this is even IF we were going to stick with coal, big storage would still be something really useful to have. Â
 Queensland is growing fast, we will need more peak power capacity at some point in the near future. GE and Siemens don’t want to build coal power stations anymore. It has to come from somewhere.Â
Pumped hydro is relatively easy to implement, safe and really efficient. It’s a win for everyone.Â
ricadam on
The more I see of him each day. The more I don’t get why he’s polling so hard. Surely that many people don’t agree with him?
Keksis_the_Defiled on
I doubt they saw it as a bad thing when writing the news piece, but this is unironically the most “critical” I’ve seen 7News be of Crisafulli.
Ghost-of-Chap82 on
They were losing their minds over the Gabba having an expiry date and treating the building like cottage cheeses… slaps the roof of a coal power station, this thing will run forever.
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What a flog.
They really are pushing us back to 1899.
Good. $14B saved on what was going to be Snowy 3.0
Gotta keep Gina happy.
As if I needed any _more_ reasons to put the LNP right down the bottom of the ballot paper.
The same guy who wanted to open concentration camps for kids…
LNP announced this in June, unsure why it now pops up here again. Early estimates put the cost at $12bn (+100% or -50%), which means they’ve got absolutely no idea how much it is going to cost. Given that EVERY major Qld Govt construction project over the last 5 years has blown out (in line with pretty much every job in the private sector as well mind you) I’d put the +100% as being an odds on favourite if this goes ahead. So the real question is – if there is an accurate cost benefit analysis done, would this project still get a green light from the ALP? And no before the labor trolls downvote me to oblivion – i’m not anti renewables, far from it.
Net zero by 2500. Apparently it was a typo that led people to believe they were planning to get there by 2050.
The most brain dead thing about this is even IF we were going to stick with coal, big storage would still be something really useful to have. Â
 Queensland is growing fast, we will need more peak power capacity at some point in the near future. GE and Siemens don’t want to build coal power stations anymore. It has to come from somewhere.Â
Pumped hydro is relatively easy to implement, safe and really efficient. It’s a win for everyone.Â
The more I see of him each day. The more I don’t get why he’s polling so hard. Surely that many people don’t agree with him?
I doubt they saw it as a bad thing when writing the news piece, but this is unironically the most “critical” I’ve seen 7News be of Crisafulli.
They were losing their minds over the Gabba having an expiry date and treating the building like cottage cheeses… slaps the roof of a coal power station, this thing will run forever.