An Extended Romp Down the Green Garden Path
24th March 2021
Alan Moran and Roger Franklin
If you have ever wondered how green absurdities become articles of faith and public policy, look no further than the mainstream and specialist media, which has long ignored the maxim that if something seems too good to be true then it probably is. Case in point: the rise of Sanjeev Gupta (above) and, just at the moment, the state of the “green steel†titan’s empire as it wobbles on the brink. For those who haven’t been following the story, the BBC has a very good primer on the Indian tycoon’s woes, albeit focusing almost exclusively on his UK operations.
Closer to home, those who look askance at the way woke world fantasies of cheap renewable energy are endorsed with taxpayer cash will know of Gupta from his much-lauded arrival in Whyalla, the purported saviour of that down-at-heel South Australian steel town. The ABC’s Stephen Long, for example, was one of many gushing nonsense without qualification in October 2018. “It’s a remnant of the Northern Power Station,†he began his report after noting a lonely chimney rearing above a bare plain, explaining it had been “one of two defunct coal-fired plants here that used to supply more than a third of South Australia’s electricity. Its boilers were detonated last December.â€
The wisdom of blowing up key vertebrae in the backbone of South Australia’s energy supply left unquestioned, Long presented more green boosterism from the town’s mayor:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/media/2021/03/an-extended-romp-down-the-green-garden-path/
