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States tell Turnbull to get his own house in order before seeking NEG sign-off
SYDNEY, Aug 10, 2018 – Josh Frydenberg’s refusal to budge on the terms for his renewables-wrecking National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has seen the governments of Victoria, Queensland and the ACT reject the scheme in its current form.The Labor states, led by Victoria, stuck to their red lines in today’s COAG meeting, including the moderate demand…
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Victoria’s NEG red lines a positive step but emissions target still too low for families struggling with big power bills
SYDNEY, Aug 8, 2018 – Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ conditions to support the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) are a step in the right direction but fail to address the scheme’s fundamental flaw of low targets.Victoria should only support a policy that is at least as ambitious as the state’s own legislated renewable energy target, which…
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Pressure on Coalition to rise to states’ challenge to lift do-nothing NEG target
SYDNEY, Aug 7, 2018 – The Victorian and Queensland governments must continue to listen to the Australian people, and push for the ambitious emissions reduction targets the country needs if it is to bring down power prices and reduce pollution from dirty coal power.The ACT, Queensland and Victoria have called on Prime Minister Turnbull to…
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Over 75 percent of Victorians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
MELBOURNE, Aug 6, 2018 – Seventy-seven percent of Victorians want Australia to embrace a high renewable energy target, ramping up the pressure on Premier Daniel Andrews to vote against the Turnbull government’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG).The results, from a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific, serve as a timely warning to the Victorian leader,…
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More than 70 percent of Australians want ambitious renewable energy target to drive down electricity prices
SYDNEY, Aug 6, 2018 – Over two-thirds of Australians want the Federal Government to set a high renewable energy target to put downward pressure on power prices, according to a Reachtel poll commissioned by Greenpeace Australia Pacific.The result serves as a rebuke to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, who have been…
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Greenpeace response to Coles setting an August deadline for the availability of free plastic bags in their stores
Greenpeace campaigner Zoe Dean welcomes the move by Coles to begin charging customers 15c for their reusable plastic bags from late August after the supermarket giant yesterday declared they would offer free bags indefinitely.”This is a fantastic outcome and shows exactly what we said yesterday – that Coles had put too much stock in the…
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Greenpeace Australia Pacific FOIs secret modelling underpinning NEG that government refuses to make public
SYDNEY, July 31, 2018 – Greenpeace has filed Freedom of Information requests in a bid to see the economic modelling that Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg have used to justify the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), but that they have refused to release, despite calls from industry experts.Greenpeace has lodged…
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Coles will be punished for their plastic bag backflip
August 1, 2018: The decision by supermarket giant Coles to indefinitely offer free plastic bags to their customers will outrage their customers and makes a mockery of their stated commitment to reduce plastic waste. Coles today announced they would continue to give away their thicker “reusable” plastic bags for free instead of charging customers 15…
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NEG mechanism as bad as its do-nothing emissions target, states won’t be duped by Frydenberg’s two-stage approval scam
SYDNEY, July 30, 2018 – Josh Frydenberg’s blatantly political attempt to calm growing opposition to the National Energy Guarantee (NEG), by asking the states to first vote on the policy’s mechanism before a second meeting on the emissions reduction target is a ploy that changes nothing and should be rejected by the states.The compromise is…
