The Electrical Trades Union (ETU) has reviewed the LNP's glossy 54-page Energy RoadMap, and what it reveals is a recipe for disaster.
Far from delivering energy security, the plan is a recipe for higher prices, more blackouts, investor uncertainty, job losses and a thinly veiled push for privatisation.
"The roadmap reads more like a political fix for internal LNP divisions than a serious plan for Queensland's energy future," said ETU State Secretary Peter Ong.
"It panders to hard-right climate sceptics and fossil fuel donors who pull the strings in the LNP, it is not a vision for workers, communities or the economy." Ong said.
The LNP has abandoned guarantees of public ownership for critical infrastructure like CopperString, deep storage and future generation assets. The union is warning of privatisation by stealth, the abandonment of public ownership of essential power assets that Queenslanders have fought and voted to keep public.
Mr Ong pointed to the glaring differences between the LNPs Energy RoadMap and the former Labor Government's Energy and Jobs Plan.
"Under Labor's Energy and Jobs Plan, there was a minimum 54% public ownership guarantee for current and future generation assets and 100% public ownership of deep storage, transmission and distribution. The LNP has scrapped many of those protections and instead opened the door to largescale private investment into energy infrastructure through a so called QIC Investor Gateway."
"This is economic vandalism, they're selling off the family silver to their corporate mates, while regional communities are left in limbo. There are no guarantees for workers, no transition plan, and no commitment to public-led energy or manufacturing."
"Queenslanders are right to ask: Why is the LNP walking away from its supposed bipartisan support for public ownership of essential energy assets?"
"We deserve a fair, publicly-owned transition, not backroom privatisation for short-term profit."
