Sky News Australia 
Nationals MP Keith Pitt joins Sky News to discuss revelations Energy Minister Chris Bowen has low-balled the cost of transitioning our power grid to net zero by as much as $100 billion.
Mr Pitt said it’s set to cost “an absolute fortune”.
“Let’s look at what this is – the claims now are $100 billion plus that that report is out by,” he told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
“That is twice the defence budget, that is three times the aged care budget each year.
“It is a significant amount of money and no one should be surprised that Chris Bowen has got it wrong.”
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If Chris Bowen was honest he would admit that nuclear is cheaper – he just can’t admit he is wrong
I have Greens and Teals wins Zero seats next Federal election. I hope Conservative parties win.
When are politicians going to accept responsibility. They never will, and make decisions they will never ever have to personally justify. Bowen has a history of total failures and he still is making decisions to crucify us all.
BS, its bugetted forecast is $128 billion dollars. This is public information. This is less than the cost of two large scale reactors @ $68 billion per reactor. That's just construction. You can check these figures for yourself and see Kieth lie through his teeth.
Did Bowen have a brain? The Australian public don't realise that the government is giving $900 thousand per wind turbine, per year as a subsidy to the companies running this scheme because the turbine don't run 24/7 so they will lose money ? How many turbines are there in Australia and are these overseas companies, the climate fraud has been going on for 30 years as they say keep telling people the same thing and they will believe it
And the cost of nuclear energy? Now with problems factored in?
This solar and wind farm nonsense should stop and the money should go into defence because if we can’t defend what we have got we will finish up with nothing that’s my thoughts
Chris Bowen only gets his information from experts, you know lying con artists online!
Has anyone EVER seen costings on a project pushed by Chris Bowen. His inability to do simple , presentable T_sheets goes on & on. Recklessly spending taxpayer funds without any control. And yet here in 2024; nothing has been learned. https://youtu.be/eon13mKmagw?si=Ofpk65gvqAeU_f6f
When it comes to quoting costs to justify his renewables net ZERO crap Bowen cannot be trusted
When it comes to the atomic energy discussion Bowen wheels out the CSIRO Gencost report to dismiss Nuclear being part of Australia's clean reliable 24/7 power future
But that report is biased and deceitful
CSIRO and AEMO had made a “category error” by comparing the per watt cost of nuclear energy to the cost of renewables such as solar and wind because one generates power 24×7, and the other generates power only when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing.
Bowen is deliberately refusing to discuss Australia's ANSTO report which discusses the worldwide public discussion about small modular reactors as the newest, most innovative, and versatile nuclear power solution that many countries worldwide are interested in adopting.
Australians must be allowed to discuss and consider global developments in nuclear power technologies that can return Australians to cheaper reliable 24/7 power
Australia should not be listening to Bowen or the CSiRO but ANSTO with its expertise in nuclear operating Australia’s only multi-purpose reactor, and its close association with countries with nuclear expertise, ANSTO has the knowledge to develop the training programs in preparation for a nuclear industry, if the Australian Government ever were to make that decision.
Australia must allow Dutton and other experts explore future energy options, and have more discussions on SMRs taking place.
And it won’t work at the end of the day..go WEF🥳🥳🥳👹
At some point I am awaiting for the first government to fess up to this (Zero carbon) is a load of crap. It is going to happen because no government will willing lead their citizens into poverty, unless you are a woke trendy lefty.
You know that you’re being scammed when the simplest cheapest solutions are ignored or derided but the dumbest most expensive most useless inefficient non solutions are extolled
How many shares has Bowen in companies that are doing all this work?
SACK THE PRICK
Albo and Bowen ARE NOT WORKING FOR AUSTRALIANS
But are actually WORKING FOR THE UN WEF
LABOR ARE TRAITORS AND SHOULD BE LOCKED UP
Keith Pitt,
I Call on You and the Nationals to End Your Support for Coal and Back Central QLD's Huge Solar Opportunity.
We Urgently Need to Build Minimum 2500 Square Kilometres of Solar on Mined Out Coal Land in CQ.
Plus Good on You for Supporting Australiana.
You all know what net zero means?
Is the amount of money every day people have to live.
Any labour politician that thinks Albo has taken the wrong path should challenge the bloody leadership simple
Not to mention all the dead birds from blade collisions; and the frequent need to replace blades due to erosion (with no process to recycle old blades).
Its More than that. Its been Estimated in the TRILLIONS Not Billions. Trillions INCLUDES The AUSNET Roll out.
😊it Will cost trillions of dollars, And will come out of peoples pockets of this country , this government is a bunch of dreams , This country needs a complete change of government,new people all together soner the better,
What’s costing more is employers vaccines mandates that Australian people still can’t get their jobs back. But it’s okay, we have lots of migrants , most unvaccinated to take our jobs!
The cost in dollars is one part of the story…… far bigger impact will be the clearing of land to house all the solar panels and wind farms.
I can’t believe the “tree huggers” are also the ones turning a blind eye on the destruction of nature.
Farmers have a natural affinity for the land, the city pretenders have no clue what it takes to make a living on the land.
Here is an idea you f-ing morons. Remove this cretinous government and stop this insanity now. IT IS YOUR OWN F-ING FAULT IF YOU """"""ALLOW""""""" THEM TO DO THIS. Emphasis on """"""ALLOW"""""", because there is nothing stopping people from standing together and demanding their REMOVAL.
Another Labor white Elephant
More power lines means more maintenance costs plus replace panels every 20 years.
Not transitioning to net zero will cost a lot more than money, honey.
the big scam energy minister chris bowen not working for Australian peoples !!!!!
A minute ago, cost was not an issue for the Libs – nuclear energy became the solution for climate change.
It won't work. And if they go through with these idiotic ideas it will cost a fortune. Labor can't even fix the housing problem or stopping all these migrants coming here putting more financial drain o our country. They can't even have had fore thought to have had a law in place to stop these criminals from being released in to our society..
think how many smr we could buy
I think there might be
I think they might be telling us what they already told us but in a different way
So we can get on the outside what we have on the inside
The classic give and take
Quadrupling yourelec. Supplies like the rest will kill your country dead unless yocancel EVs replacement for 40 years. , along with heating, cooling hot water and industry and properties. $Trillions at stake. While everything else goes to pot.