South Australians could be forgiven for thinking that their Premier is serious about addressing climate change. At the recent Solar Cities Conference, Premier Mike Rann announced that his Government would aim to be carbon neutral by 2020 and went on to document the state’s climate achievements.
Yet Premier Rann is on the brink of approving not […]
We read today in the The Australian (’Labor renewable energy plan will cost economy $1.5bn’, 19/03/2208) that the fossil fuel industry has commissioned a report that, surprise surprise, emphasises increased electricity costs and costs to the economy if they are penalised for polluting under an Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) .
Only a few months ago, Kevin Rudd’s election promises echoed in my ears – climate change to be made a priority, signing Kyoto at the Bali climate change talks and encouraging renewable energy targets. I celebrated the end of the Howard legacy and had (somewhat optimistic) high hopes for the new climate-caring Australian government.
However, Howard’s […]
13 activists, including myself, appeared in court today after we took part in a peaceful Greenpeace protest last year. We shut down coal loading equipment at the Munmorah coal-fired power station and painted the message “Coal Kills” on its roof, in order to highlight the fact that our atmosphere is being choked with […]
This morning, a long-standing assumption of mine about emissions trading was blown completely out of the water. I’d always thought the purpose of an emissions trading scheme was to get industries who are chocking our atmosphere with greenhouse gases to stop - the prospect of heavy financial penalties being the incentive for the industry to […]