PRESS RELEASE: Energy Transition Needs Urgent Rethink, Warn 50 Leading Experts (April 30, 2025)
Australia’s Current Energy Policy a ‘Dangerous Experiment’ – Risks Trillions in Costs and Irreparable Damage
On the heels of Canadians electing Mark Carney, one of the most extreme advocates of ‘net zero’ policies and climate change rhetoric, over 50 of Australia’s leading scientists, engineers, economists, conservationists, business leaders, union leaders, and energy experts have issued a warning: “Australia’s energy future is in jeopardy,” the signatories of a major open letter signed on April 30 said. They warn that Australia’s current energy policies are “ideologically driven and risk becoming a multi-trillion-dollar, irreversible economic and environmental disaster.”
This echoes Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s warning two years ago when electricty rates in the province began soaring. “This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” the Premier quipped.1 Dick Smith, an Australian inventor, entrepreneur, and recipient of the Australian of the Year award, warns in the letter:
Without nuclear energy, Australia faces economic catastrophe. Renewables alone cannot provide the reliable, continuous power we need. We are being led into a trillion-dollar disaster by ideology, not science.
Conservationist Steven Nowakowski gets to the heart of what we’ve been saying here at Wind Concerns all along: can we save the planet by destroying it at the same time?
Environmental groups today oppose everything except industrial-scale renewables, even when it destroys the nature they claim to protect. It’s time to return to true conservation principles and real solutions.
The problem, says energy systems expert, Aidan Morrison, is that green energy has become deeply politicized. It’s not about “following the science”:
The current energy plan and renewable energy targets haven’t been determined by science or expert analysis… it’s been determined politicians, and re-branded by institutions such as AEMO to make it appear as though it’s from the experts. The current plan will be unreliable, and economically and environmentally disastrous.
Bravo. We can only hope that the Alberta Government will heed these experts and begin making bold decisions, rather than concessions, to move in a direction that will preserve the integrity of the provinces power grid, landscapes, and rural communities.
In the follow highlights, we see what many citizen’s groups around the globe have been pointing out about the reckless, haphazard, and ultimately dangerous “renewable energy” programmes being launched in their nations.
Key Points from the Australian Open Letter:
• Australia’s energy transition is proceeding without sufficient scientific rigour, transparency, or cost accountability.
• Full renewable transition costs are projected between $7 trillion and $9 trillion — equivalent to up to $850,000 per Australian household.
• Renewable-only plans pose a severe threat to grid stability, affordability, and national energy sovereignty.
• Nuclear energy is being misrepresented and prematurely dismissed; reliable, zero-emission nuclear power could be delivered for around $120 billion — a fraction of the renewables rollout cost.
• Billions in taxpayer subsidies are flowing offshore to foreign-controlled\ renewable companies, with limited transparency or return for Australian taxpayers.
• Environmental damage from large-scale wind and solar developments is being overlooked by major energy councils and environmental non for profits.
The full letter can be downloaded here.
Mark Mallett is a former award-winning reporter with CTV Edmonton and an independent researcher and author. His family homesteaded between Vermilion and Cold Lake, Alberta, and now resides in the Lakeland region. Mark is Editor in Chief of Wind Concerns.
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Thank you Mark Mallet for not shying away from the hot topics.
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