As greens leader Bob Brown rose to speak to an assembled group of activists and media to launch a campaign against coal seam gas in Brisbane – a day after Alan Jones attempted to rally the media in Canberra – the head of Australia’s largest energy group, Origin Energy, rose in front of several hundred businessmen at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney to launch a campaign against energy ideology.
Was this a happy coincidence or just a reflection of the fact that the hot environmental debate is about to move from pricing carbon to energy choices? In any event, the timing of both leaders was impeccable.
Not that Origin Energy CEO Grant King had only Brown and other environmentalists in his sights, he had Jones and his fellow fear-mongerers lined up too. King is frustrated by the two extremes that he says have distorted the debate about energy choices: those who rail against the price of energy as a pretext for arguing that the world is acting too soon and with the wrong policies on climate change; and those who demonise fossil fuels as a pretext for arguing that we are not doing enough to reduce emissions.
Climate Spectator
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