You'd think the minister would know this stuff, or be advised of scientific and engineering facts before the Cloud Nine rhetoric kicks in. The stated policy was dreamt up by PR flacks purely for political propaganda purposes. There isn't a shred of scientific literacy in it anywhere and it is merely a way to avoid the heavy lifting of regulating industry towards a genuine transition (a word bandied about cavalierly in a vacuum of real transition planning) and owning up to the embarrassing fact that at least three of our federal parties have invested in the continuance of producing new fossil fuel projects and enhancing the existing with other pipe dreams like CCS.
We are thankful to those who made us better by challenging our early ideas and forcing us to rethink our assumptions, it has only made us better. We are grateful for those partners who patiently allowed us to fail again and again until we were able to succeed. We will not forget those that had the faith to extend the use of their labs and plants to us when we had nothing but an idea; you made our dream to deliver the first realistic, global, and scalable solution to reduce plastic and CO2 today possible.