Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce says the government has made their “own people poor” by continuing to fund renewables that drive up electricity prices.
Mr Joyce said Snowy Hydro 2.0 will now end up costing “$20 billion” after he was told it would cost just $2- 4 billion.
“There’s only person who’s going to pay for that, and that is…you,” he told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “$20 thousand million could have refurbished every coal fired power station in Australia to high intensity low emission…coal-fired power stations, belting massive supplies of power onto our grid – forcing down the price of power.”
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