Sunday Mail Brisbane
Sunday 20/7/2008 Page: 5
THE Queensland Government has been accused of sitting on a CSIRO report that says renewable sources could supply all the state's electricity needs. Campaigners say lack of action by Energy Minister Geoff Wilson in the year since the report was presented smacks of protectionism of the coal industry, which feeds 80 per cent of Queensland's power generation. They are calling for some of the extra $578 million from coal royalties to be invested in clean energy development.
"There are vast resources from largescale solar thermal, solar photovoltaics, wind or hot fractured rocks," the CSIRO report concluded. "They could supply all required electricity generation and abate all greenhouse gas emissions." Toby Hutcheon, chief executive of Queensland Conservation, says the report should have been a green light to the Government developing a clear strategy on renewable energies. "It's disappointing that a CSIRO report is on the minister's desk and little is being done to develop that," he said.
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