Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Companies are withdrawing because of aggressive campaigns to smear and vilify investors. They are based on lies—lies about the future prospects of the coal industry and about the future prospects of the intermittent industry, otherwise known as renewables. We also notice that subsidies are distorting the market and destroying the market for coal. We also know that operating rules supporting intermittents unfairly weigh the game to the intermittent energy industry. This is just the Greens' standard modus operandi for destroying a very healthy and essential industry.