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‘You’re gonna eat bugs’: Climate fears and conspiracies at Canberra renewables protest
A crowd gathered on the lawn of Parliament House on Tuesday this week to protest the government’s plan to implement “reckless renewables”.
He has been unimpressed by the government’s efforts to engage with communities, saying that Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen appeared rude and dismissive when speaking with locals who raised their concerns in a public meeting in Port Stephens last year. The electrification champion and engineer Dr Saul Griffith, who has advised political figures from Matt Kean to Joe Biden, was cheerful in his advocacy of the economic benefits of renewable energy, while children slung free cups of shaved ice from a contraption he had crafted from an old bicycle. According to a report by the Australian Energy Infrastructure Commissioner published on February 2, 92 per cent of respondents to a survey were overwhelmingly disappointed by the extent to which project developers sought to engage with communities.
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