Posted in Anti-environmentalism, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Garnaut Review, Greens, Kyoto Protocol, Senate, fuel crisis on June 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
An edited version of this piece appeared in today’s Crikey email.
Not long ago I wrote in Crikey giving the Climate Institute a very hard time over their positioning on geosequestration. While I still think they are utterly wrong on that, I write today to support their excellent report which the Federal Opposition yesterday dishonestly and [...]
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Posted in Anti-environmentalism, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Nukes (energy related), Peak oil, Transport on May 26, 2008 | 4 Comments »
New Matilda published this piece from Christine today under the title: ‘Be wary, we’re in safe hands’.
The Rudd Government has made much, since well before coming to office, of its determination to unblock Australia’s infrastructure bottlenecks and to tackle climate change.
I have noted before that unless carefully managed, these two goals will come into direct [...]
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I’ve been meaning to post since last night on the crazy Garnaut submission the Productivity Commission released yesterday, but simply haven’t had the time.
In the interests of having something on the blog about this important piece of work to undermine climate action, I thought I’d just post Christine’s comments from yesterday.
“The Productivity Commission’s statement on [...]
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Those of you who might still read The Australian would have seen that they splashed on their opinions page and in the news pages today the claims of Phil Chapman, Australia’s first astronaut, that climate change is bunkum and an ice age cometh.
Apparently global warming has stopped, we are now cooling, and it’s all down [...]
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An edited version of this piece ran in today’s Crikey email. See also articles in today’s SMH, Financial Review and Age.
The environment movement has been united since 1972 on the fundamental issue of the polluter pays principle, stating that polluters must pay to clean up the damage they have created. It is the principle which [...]
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The debate flying in Crikey.com.au about whaling campaigns in recent days is symptomatic of the way predictable players use the summer whaling season as an opportunity to further their anti-environmental campaigns. Here’s my contribution to the debate from today’s Crikey email. Apologies if the links are behind the Crikey paywall…
Steve Shallhorn, my former boss at [...]
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