While talking to Radio 2GB’s Alan Jones, Hockey has said that he find wind turbines “utterly offensive” and “just a blight on the landscape.”

Hockey has been slammed in the media since the words came out of his mouth on that first Friday in May. Most people wonder if Hockey thinks coal mines are attractive. Despite the look of them they cover everything in dust and pollution – is this better than turbines blowing in the wind?

The wind farm he was referring to is part of Infigen Energy’s Capital wind farm and has been operating since 2009. It supplies around 60 000 homes with clean electricity every year. As Mr Hockey said in his unfortunate interview (although it didn’t seem to be first hand information to him), wind farms such as these are involved in contracts and as such they are unable to close them down.

However, it is clear that many renewable agencies are going to have funding cuts or be dismantled and absorbed back into a government department.

As an article by RenewEconomy says, attention to detail in this interview was not Hockey’s strong point. It seems as though he confused the Clean Energy Regulator with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

In general, the government seems to be taking down all agencies or corporations with the words “clean,” “climate” or “carbon” in it – the carbon price, the Climate Commission, the Climate Change Authority – even the Cleantech awards had to be renamed.

As yet it is still undecided what will happen to the Renewable Energy Target. People of all different companies and levels of respect have come forward to say how much the RET is needed and should remain unchanged. It seems we can all talk about it until we are blue in the face and it will make little difference – the right people are not listening and seem to find contradictions (whether true or not) against anything brought forward in defence of the RET.

Australia Solar Council CEO, John Grimes, has also said that the RET Review is heading towards a ‘biased and predetermined outcome.’