GT Communications’ Gemma Tognini says the government is 'driven by ideology' when it comes to its approach to energy policy.
GT Communications’ Gemma Tognini says the government is “driven by ideology” when it comes to its approach to energy policy.
“You’ve got a government … completely uninterested in the energy poverty it’s plunging a section of the economy into and a section of the community into,” Ms Tognini told Sky News host James Morrow. “If you’re going to put more than a billion bucks into something put it into developing a resource that we know has no emissions, is reliable.”
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