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The latest renewable energy myths from Murdoch and the Coalition
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/the-latest-renewable-energy-myths-from-murdoch-and-thecoalition,9276[font face=Serif][font size=5]The latest renewable energy myths from Murdoch and the Coalition[/font]
25 July 2016, 7:30am
[font size=4]Dodgy data, the Coalition and the Murdoch press have again presented a spectacular performance in renewable energy misinformation, writes RenewEconomy's Giles Parkinson.[/font]
[font size=3]IT APPEARS that the South Australian conservative Opposition may have been the original source for the dodgy numbers that formed the basis of an erroneous front page story on The Australian last week, about wind generation in the state.
RenewEconomy understands from several sources that the South Australian Liberal Party Opposition – a big opponent of wind energy – obtained data from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and then “stuffed the numbers up” quite spectacularly and passed its mistaken conclusions on to The Australian.
As RenewEconomy pointed out in an article on Wednesday, the numbers quoted by The Australian in its “exclusive” attack on wind energy were not only wrong, they were completely nonsensical, claiming wind production figures that were nearly four times total capacity.
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25 July 2016, 7:30am
[font size=4]Dodgy data, the Coalition and the Murdoch press have again presented a spectacular performance in renewable energy misinformation, writes RenewEconomy's Giles Parkinson.[/font]
[font size=3]IT APPEARS that the South Australian conservative Opposition may have been the original source for the dodgy numbers that formed the basis of an erroneous front page story on The Australian last week, about wind generation in the state.
RenewEconomy understands from several sources that the South Australian Liberal Party Opposition – a big opponent of wind energy – obtained data from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) and then “stuffed the numbers up” quite spectacularly and passed its mistaken conclusions on to The Australian.
As RenewEconomy pointed out in an article on Wednesday, the numbers quoted by The Australian in its “exclusive” attack on wind energy were not only wrong, they were completely nonsensical, claiming wind production figures that were nearly four times total capacity.
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