If you believe wind farms and renewable energy targets will stop climate change you should be locked up, outspoken independent senator Jacqui Lambie has told parliament.
Senator Lambie supports legislation to slash Australia's renewable energy target, saying green initiatives are "helping our enemies destroy a great nation."
"If you believe the rubbish coming out of the mouth of (Greens senator) Christine Milne and the Greens at best you are condemning our children to a life of abject poverty," she declared on Wednesday.
The Tasmanian believes wind farms and other renewables are killing manufacturing and forcing pensioners to pay more for their energy bills.
People who believe those technologies can stop the world's climate changing are "dangerously deluded" and should be locked up.
Senator Lambie drew praise from an unlikely source - Liberal senator Ian Macdonald - who rarely holds back his criticism of the former Palmer United Party senator.
"What a wonderful speech," he said, following Senator Lambie's contribution to debate on the RET.
"It's been a long time since I've heard a speech that's so clear and perspective on the reality of life."
He was "delighted" at least one Tasmanian non-government senator understood the destruction of the Greens while accusing the party of bullying tactics.
"I'm pleased to see, Senator Lambie, that you will not be bullied by the Greens and the thought-police," he said.
Legislation to slash the renewable energy target from 41,000 gigawatt hours to 33,000 is likely to reach a vote on Wednesday.
The bill reflects a bipartisan deal, agreed to after a year of political stalemate that crippled the clean energy industry.
Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson said Senator Lambie had swallowed "hook, line and sinker" the rhetoric of the fossil fuel industry.
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