Updated news about the politicking and persecution surrounding...

Updated news about the politicking and persecution surrounding the 'event':


In further fallout from the SA blackout, questions are being asked about South Australia's increasing use of renewable energy, despite assurances from the premier the switch to cleaner energy sources was not to blame.

Prime Minister Malcolm (Turncoat) Turnbull said he wants a new national renewable energy target across all states and territories, as he used the blackout to focus on energy security.

Turnbull said state Labor governments have set "extremely aggressive, extremely unrealistic" targets and he wanted a new unified national renewables target.

His comments echo accusations from Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, Federal Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg and South Australian senator Nick Xenophon.

Frydenberg also appeared on the ABC's 7.30 program and said "questions are raised by the virtue of the increasing amount of renewables," but he also said: "it has to be underlined that this was a major weather event."
Labor Premier Jay Weatherill hit back strongly this morning, accusing his critics of "playing politics", pursuing anti-renewable agendas andjumping the gun in defiance of expert advice.

In May, the coal-fired Port Augusta power station closed because it could no longer compete with subsidised clean energy.

But Weatherill said the blackout was a "weather event, not a renewable energy event". Citing the Australian Energy Market Operator, Weatherill said no system would have been able to cope with such an event.

At least 80,000 lightning strikes hit the state during the wild weather, which knocked over 22 transmission poles.

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