Angus Taylor condemns us to another round of energy stupidity | Simon Holmes a Court

It's not that Taylor is a climate change denier, it's just that he'd rather work against effective climate policyJust as we begin to imagine life without Tony Abbott undermining every sensible interaction between climate and energy policy, his "energy brain" in the form of the new energy minister, Angus Taylor, is now calling the shots.Taylor has been fighting against the wind industry since the late 1990s, when developers came knocking, wanting to build a wind farm on his parents' Monaro Plains property. The Taylor family turned down the opportunity, and the Boco Rock Wind Farm was instead built on the next ridgeline. Last year the wind farm generated enough zero-emissions electricity to power more than 70,000 average New South Wales households, and pumped $6.7m through the local economy. Continue reading...