{"id":30561,"date":"2016-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/green-push-exposes-sa-to-major-risks\/"},"modified":"2016-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"green-push-exposes-sa-to-major-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/green-push-exposes-sa-to-major-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Green push exposes SA to major risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Two months ago Chris Kenny warned that the Weatherill\u2019s government\u2019s push to green energy was exposing SA to major risks.<\/h3>\n<p>SA\u2019s state government was \u201cconsciously\u201d driving up the price of electricity, Kenny wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/opinion\/chris-kenny-weatherill-governments-push-to-green-energy-is-exposing-south-australia-to-major-risks\/news-story\/4297a046cf3fcb90eee76ab4987a5a5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Advertiser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has implemented policies that forced a major coal-fired power generator at Port Augusta to close, then is caught out with insufficient and overly-expensive power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere is a state constantly crying for help yet it won\u2019t help itself,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSA boasts about having a higher proportion of wind energy than any other state \u2014 but the other states don\u2019t envy the unreliable power this provides and the higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state seems to be deluding itself about saving the planet by shutting itself down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time it installs more wind turbines, it has to upgrade an interconnector to import back-up electricity from Victoria that is generated by burning coal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s OK for Victorians to earn a living from coal-fired power stations \u2014 and have cheap power \u2014 but, at Port Augusta, families are thrown on the scrap heap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/opinion\/chris-kenny-weatherill-governments-push-to-green-energy-is-exposing-south-australia-to-major-risks\/news-story\/4297a046cf3fcb90eee76ab4987a5a5c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the full column here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/premier-says-weather-the-sole-reason-for-power-failure\"><strong>SEE ALSO: PREMIER SAYS SYSTEM DID WHAT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/leon-byner\/yesterday-s-state-wide-blackout-was-predicted-twice\"><strong>SEE ALSO: BYNER &#8212; THIS EXACT SCENARIO WAS PREDICTED\u2026 TWICE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago Chris Kenny warned that the Weatherill\u2019s government\u2019s push to green energy was exposing SA to major risks. SA\u2019s state government was \u201cconsciously\u201d driving up the price of electricity, Kenny wrote in The Advertiser. \u201cIt has implemented policies that forced a major coal-fired power generator at Port Augusta to close, then is caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":17166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-30561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leon-byner","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green push exposes SA to major risks - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/green-push-exposes-sa-to-major-risks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Green push exposes SA to major risks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two months ago Chris Kenny warned that the Weatherill\u2019s government\u2019s push to green energy was exposing SA to major risks. 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