John Smith wrote on Nov 20^th, 2024 at 5:04pm:


You mean the firm also employed by Labor? Why don't you ask the same question of them?

lee wrote on Nov 20^th, 2024 at 5:30pm:



Cause the OP isn't about them ya dumbarse

Mainland Australia’s last wind tower manufacturer will be forced to mothball its plant in a major embarrassment for the ­Albanese government after cheap imports using heavy-polluting Chinese steel have destroyed the local industry and cast a shadow over Labor’s domestic renewables policy.

Keppel Prince has blasted the federal and Victorian governments after a long-running lack of certainty and failure to deal with heavily subsidised Asian steel imports forced the Portland-based manufacturer to close its wind tower manufacturing facility, once one of the nation’s biggest.

Keppel Prince executive director Stephen Garner singled out Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen for criticism, saying he had been to the plant and was well aware of the challenges facing local producers who are [highlight]competing with China, where there are generous subsidies for producers that have crippled Australian competitors[/highlight].
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/china-subsidies-smash-australian-wind-to...


Bowels or Albo- which one is more insincere and stupid?


Asked where the Prime Minister and Mr Bowen fit in the closure, Mr Garner said: “They’ve got to look really bad that they are losing the only tower manufacturer accredited to build the things.

“The federal government continues to say, like Albanese says, we want to get back to manufacturing. Here we have a manufacturing facility already in place.

“It’s set up for renewable energy, which is what the government talks about every day of the week, and yet we’ve got to mothball it because we can’t compete with China because our government won’t do anything about it.

“It’s just so disappointing that the government is doing literally nothing to stop China from dumping into Australia.’’


Mr Tehan said the government’s pledge to build Australia’s manufacturing base was in disarray. “What a complete embarrassment,’’ the member for Wannon said. “Their renewables only policy has been such a success it has closed our last remaining wind tower manufacturer.

“So the government is not in breach of its own misinformation and disinformation laws, it needs to immediately pull its Made in Australia ads that proudly displays a wind farm.

“It would actually be funny, if workers weren’t losing their jobs because of such incompetence.’’

At one point, Mr Garner had considered Chinese steel but it was being offered at double the price of that being given to his overseas competitors.

“For many, many years I feel like I’ve been the pied piper,’’ he said. “I’ve been standing on a soap box preaching this for so long, that China has been subsidised. We know that (in) China the government gives a 12 per cent subsidy for every tower that they export. And if that’s not dumping, then what is?’’




Albo and Bowels - a pair of useless, stupid wrecker.

Poor tgd, marketing his MMT's BS again. Not getting enough traction?

Brian Ross wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2024 at 12:25pm:

I am going to call you a cun't every time you yawn, you cun't.

And I invite every other member to do so.
You cun't.

Let's see who gets censured and banned first for being a cun't.

lee wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2024 at 2:03pm:



any reports labor may or may not have previously commissioned have nothing to do with the OP you dumbarse . What are you brain damaged?

lee wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2024 at 2:01pm:


Poor lee, marketing his 'climate hoax' theory, and 'healthy  air pollution' theory.

Fact (not theory): money is created out of thin air, unemcumbered by the now obsolete gold standard.