Sky News host Andrew Bolt has called out Chris Bowen over the Energy Minister’s backflip on offshore wind farms, after he had to slash the size of his planned offshore wind farm zone off western Victoria by 80 per cent.
Mr Bolt said last year the Climate Change and Energy Minister “laughed off claims” that the massive offshore wind farms he wants built all along our coast might actually harm whales.
“Nonsense, he scoffed – well, fast forward to this morning when Bowen slipped out a press statement announcing his latest whoopsie,” he said.
“Good heavens, he’s just had to slash the size of his planned offshore wind farm zone off western Victoria by 80 per cent. You see, it turns out the whales are a real worry, after all.”
Mr Bolt said the backflip today proves Mr Bowen is a “smart alec and landscape-wrecker with no idea what he’s doing from one day to the next”.
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Absolutely pathetic excuse for a person let alone a minister. 🤣
Bowen is good fun value, not to mention he provides one of the best reasons for Labour being booted out next election ✅
The answer is not to retrofit clean energy onto a fossil fuel based economy, i think they need to build towns that are NOT based around cars but a more eco friendly sustainable model.There is no doubt in my mind that tar and concrete roads and buildings are creating a thermal map across the earth that by turning to EVs will NEVER solve. It won't, it can't, electric cars only solve a small percentage of the problem, and windfarms don't address core issues with how we use energy in the first place, namely fridges, air con, tvs. etc
Bowen is a nut job
So a few Aboriginals can stop gas production in the north ( supported by the Government sponsored environmental defenders office ) because of whale song lines, but apparently whales don’t sing along the East coast ? Where are the Aboriginals to defend the east coast whales?
We are going to put all the old windmill and solar panels in Bowen back yard
How many of you have solar on your roof
Owen should be in a mental institution
Have the greens gone into hiding ? Can’t decide between whales or wind !
He's not the only f…wit in the Labor Party.
It’s all ok the tax payer will pay to have them pulled down when it fails
High school Drop out.
The next stage of their climate scam building this polluting wind and solar structure will in approximately 15-20 years will be the clean up. After the clean up the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich will be completed. Remember! You WILL own nothing and be happy. THEY TOLD YOU.
Bowen is a fool. How is he in charge of anything. If it was the private sector, he would be nowhere near upper management, he would have been sacked years ago from the storeroom.
Bowen you brain dead muppet.
How long do we have to put up with these clowns
Chris Bowen logic, "we will build renewables by destroying the natural habitat of native animals and farmland and increase power prices to try to stop carbon, which is a basic necessity of our planet and of which our country produces such a minute amount that stopping carbon production here will have absolutely no impact on the world climate."
Incredible how one man , can cause so much destruction.Just a fool 😡
Bowen is an incompetent fool just like Albo and Barnaby Joyce.
Where are the Greens on the whales? Oh the greens are now the new Commos.
Bowen is so stupid it’s scary. He will single-handedly cause the biggest debt in Australia’s history, all for no benefit.
Sexy fingers Bowen,everything he touches he F%#!?. The cost to build off shore wind is through the roof and the maintenance cost is even more. We will never have cheaper power prices going down this track. Nuke.
I think everyone has missed the point that the Victorian government didnt do their job by getting the environmental box ticked before signing on for the project. Not a Labor fan by any means but why blame Bowen for fixing Victorias stuff up?
Anything attached to the UN WHO WEF IS A FRAUD , FAKE SCIENCE BACKED BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
We should generate energy from Bolts tears.
He is owned by foreign interest , not australian only in name.
Historians in the future will shake their heads at the utter delusion that pervaded modern politician thinking.
Bowen is a typical greeny buffoon.Absolute idiot.😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
Chris Bowen the environmental destroyer of Australia
Bowen your a brainless nob you need sacking today you should be charged with treason
If ONLY BOWEN HAD A BRAIN.😢😮
Ping….the sound that the last existing orange bellied parrot made when it flew into a wind turbine!
Congratulations, we've exposed once again that people are gifted positions in which they have little to no basic or fundamental experience and all the tax payers expense, both long and short term.
Casanova Bozzo at it again
Great news for the people of Port McDonell in SA who campaigned to stop this wind farm. So much misinformation pours out of this government and its media arm the ABC. I am so pleased that this wind farm has been stopped from extending into SA but saddened that this Victorian iconic coastline is to be forever damaged by this stupidity. Where are the Greens in this? In past years they would have been very vocal in protecting wild life.
Ask how the Wedge Tailed Eagles are going in Victoria with Wind Farms.
I think the problem could be the solution. Government is potentially budgeting billions of dollar for external renewable power. If I could play PM or environmental minister for a day I’d say let’s spend that billions putting solar on everyone’s roof, battery in every home. Then the consumer can make their own power, store it and then even provide it to the grid. In other words use the space we have. Crap it may take years, but I’m sure it would help to lower some cost of living as well.
Ukraine expects to start construction work on four new nuclear power reactors this summer or autumn, Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko told Reuters, as the country seeks to compensate for lost energy capacity due to the war with Russia. Reuters.
Yet we can't even think to build one on a peaceful and stable continent.
Interestingly my brother works on the water both here and Europe and has noticed in the last decade issues with actual aggression from marine mammals increasing. Best he can figure is the exponential increase in locating equipment on ships but also on private vessels of all sizes. Throw in the mass beachings of whales etc on various coasts globally and you need to start to wonder what’s going on.
Stands to reason they rely on sonar to navigate and are extraordinarily sensitive to small changes and suddenly we start blasting signals everywhere. It would be like living in the middle of a 24/7 construction site in the dark with no respite. You’d be cranky, in pain and disorientated.
I wouldn’t trust Chris Bowen to walk my dog
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Albos Bunch Clowns
I recently read a study that shows off shore wind farms not only disrupt the migratory patterns of animals but change tidal patterns. This will affect ocean grasses, coral production and sands being deposited on beaches. So not only could we see our ocean life destroyed but also our beaches disappear. Destroying the planet to save it. Lunacy at its best.
The usual fact-missing report from Bolt
Let’s think about his initial irony of putting ‘environment saving’ wind turbines in the whales home!
Andrew, get some guests on with practical knowledge of actual costs, reliability, output and environmental/eco diversity damage caused by these Chinese made monstrosities. Smash the Bowen ideology right in the nose with the brutal facts on windfarms including the massive taxpayer subsidies paid to ideologue billionaires for initial building and carbon offset certificates. Anyone with half a brain will be horrified. Anyone supporting the policy is an environmental and economic vandal, just like Chris Bowen.
The corruption & so called leaders of countries throughout the world that think they no anything is so blatantly obvious they are not educated & are not entitled the positions they lead.
A recent unearthed study suggests EV’s are far worse for the environment by way of emissions than ICE vehicles. The extra weight of the batteries puts huge wear and tear on tyres and brakes which results in greater emissions than the gases that come out of a modern tail pipe. 😎👊👍🇦🇺
Had an idea about our coal fired power stations. Compulsory acquisition and put them in the hands of somebody with brains and courage. Can we get the Argentinian bloke?.
‘As popular as leprosy’ as good a description as you get.
Blackout Bowen is an environmental disaster. He is an absolute maniac who is determined to destroy Australia's farms, forests, wildenerss, wildlife and ocean habitats, with zero conscience and for absolutely no practical reason, other than to ultimately deindustrialise Australia and make his billionnair mates more wealthy.