At MB we are great fans of Jay Weatherill. His bank levy is bonza. His renewables shift is nation leading. And his temper is a Bobby Dazzler:
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has been urged to apologise after branding critics of the state’s power outages “right-wing f..kwits” at a federal colleague’s book launch.
Speaking at the launch of Labor MP Mark Butler’s book Climate Wars at the University of Adelaide yesterday, Mr Weatherill unloaded on a handful of commentators he believed used any opportunity to attack the state’s renewable energy program.
During his speech, Mr Weatherill referenced a power outage at Adele’s Adelaide concert in March, mentioned in the book, which was caused by a roadie unplugging the wrong cord, but was interpreted by concert-goers at the time as the fault of the state’s patchy power supply.
Mr Weatherill described the angst he and several colleagues assembled in a corporate box had felt as the outage unfolded, and then their relief when the pop star confirmed the outage was unrelated to the state’s power supply.
He was scathing of the “right-wing f..kwits” who he believed had sought to take advantage of the situation, in particular The Australian’s associate editor Chris Kenny, and a series of tweets he released in the wake of the outage.
Mr Weatherill also slammed senator Nick Xenophon for spreading fear that energy concerns could put lives at risk and spreading fears that the “lights might be out for five days”.
It ain’t libelous if it’s true. The entire Right has beaten up the SA power transition into something that it isn’t. The only problem SA ran into was the Feds allowing the gas cartel to maraud across the east coast economy. Not to mention trashing the carbon price, ten years of policy chaos etc.
Scott Morrison is at it again today:
Treasurer Scott Morrison has rubbished South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill’s deal with billionaire tech engineer Elon Musk to build the world’s largest lithium ion battery in the state, saying it won’t even store enough energy to get 30,000 households through one episode of Ninja Warrior.
Mr Morrison said the battery was “barely worth a mention” because its 129 megawatt hours of storage were “so at the margin”.
“I mean, honestly. By all means have the world’s biggest battery, have the world’s biggest banana, have the world’s biggest prawn like we have on the roadside around the country, but that is not solving the problem,” he said.
“That’s just trying to say, ‘Bright shiny thing over here. Don’t look at the thing over there.’ That’s an old trick from a politician.
“What we’re talking about here is something I said inside, 30,000 South Australian households could not get through watching one episode of Australia’s Ninja Warrior with this big battery, so let’s not pretend it is a solution.”
It’s only the future of energy, right-wing fuckwit.
