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Energy and Emissions Reductions Minister #AngusTaylor quietly commissioned fossil fuel executive Grant King to review gov climate policy
Its out and its worrying
It help polluters with quicker, cheaper, easier reductions at climate's and taxpayer's expense.
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Its out and its worrying
It help polluters with quicker, cheaper, easier reductions at climate's and taxpayer's expense.
#auspol
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First this is a red carpet exercise for the Government's failed clean coal technologies
This includes amending mandates for our clean energy funding bodies the @CEFCAus and @ARENA_aus to now allow them to not fund clean energy through CCS
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
This includes amending mandates for our clean energy funding bodies the @CEFCAus and @ARENA_aus to now allow them to not fund clean energy through CCS
smh.com.au/politics/feder…
King calls for the limited climate funding (only $2b over 10yrs vs 100 times that spent on #covid19) to go to Carbon Capture and Storage
The gov has already spent $1.3b on CCS with nothing to show for it, see @TheAusInstitute report
Yep clean coal 2.0
tai.org.au/content/money-…
The gov has already spent $1.3b on CCS with nothing to show for it, see @TheAusInstitute report
Yep clean coal 2.0
tai.org.au/content/money-…
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Budgets and Bushfires: has government cost-cutting hindered firefighting? @MichaelWestBiz does some much-needed digging. The truth will shock. Bad enough to be saddled with a climate-denying gov but cost-cutting is the main reason why this inferno is now out of control
Budgets and Bushfires: has government cost-cutting hindered firefighting? @MichaelWestBiz does some much-needed digging. The truth will shock. Bad enough to be saddled with a climate-denying gov but cost-cutting is the main reason why this inferno is now out of control
“How come we only had 4 trucks to defend our town?” pleaded distressed resident of Cobargo to Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “I’m not going to shake your hand until you give the RFS more funding,” another woman from Cobargo, Zoey, told the PM. Little did they know the truth.
Michael West found that spending on equipment dipped significantly in the years leading up to this terrible summer, and also that spending on “fire mitigation work” had fallen significantly. 
