Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Transport, Wind Power, fuel crisis on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week.
If we are to make this law a reality and give the Australian renewable energy sector the best possible support that it will need in [...]
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Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Garnaut Review, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power on June 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Very pleased to announce that the Private Member’s Bill for a comprehensive national feed-in law for renewable energy that Christine introduced last month has been successfully referred to the Senate Environment Committee for a formal Inquiry.
What this means is that, after the debacle of the Budget, there is now the opportunity for a detailed public [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Forestry, Garnaut Review, Greens, Peak oil, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Transport on June 3, 2008 | 9 Comments »
As the team at Hansard are struggling valiantly to catch up on the huge quantity of transcribing work coming out of Senate Estimates, it’s going to be a little while before we’re up to date here on what’s been happening, but I thought I’d post a few key climate and oil-related transcripts now.
The one that [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Drought, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Industrial Relations, Logging, Marine, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Web 2.0, Welfare, Wind Power, YouTube on May 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This has taken a while, but we finally have Christine’s Budget Reply Speech up on YouTube and postable to the blog. Those of you who have enjoyed reading or listening to it may be interested in watching it.
In five parts.
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We’ve seen three significant steps in the last 24 hours in the campaign to save Australia’s solar industry.
Last night in Senate Estimates hearings, Christine plugged away at Penny Wong over the ludicrous decision to means test the rooftop solar rebate at a family income of $100,000. She succeeded in getting the Minister to acknowledge that [...]
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Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Election 07, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Web 2.0, Wind Power on May 21, 2008 | 22 Comments »
ABC Online kindly published this piece of mine today here. It’s very encouraging to see the overwhelmingly positive comments thread thus far.
Martin Ferguson, let the cat out of the bag shortly after the Budget, when he said that carbon capture and storage would be “essential for the long-term sustainability of coal-fired power generation.” With those [...]
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Posted in Agriculture, Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Disability, Education, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Family & Community, Forestry, Greens, Health, Housing Crisis, Indigenous Australian, Logging, NT Intervention, Peak oil, Poverty, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Sustainable Farming, Tax, Transport, Water, Welfare, Wind Power on May 16, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Instead of replying to the details of the Rudd-Swan Budget, I decided this year to use their backward-looking, future-phobic presentation as the launching pad for a broader discussion of what we might do if we had a Government with the vision and guts necessary to take on the twin challenges of climate change and peak [...]
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Posted in Christine Milne, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Wind Power, YouTube on May 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Against the backdrop of several appalling Rudd Government Budget decisions that will undermine the renewables industry in Australia even further (some of which are detailed here), Christine Milne introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Senate this morning to establish an comprehensive national feed-in law.
Feed-in laws support the rapid and unlimited growth of the renewables [...]
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Posted in Budget, Christine Milne, Climate change, Coal, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Environment, Greens, Renewable energy, Senate, Solar PV, Solar Thermal, Tax, Transport on May 15, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Crikey published this piece from me today, in the lead up to my Budget Reply speech tonight, which I will post to the blog as soon as the Hansard is available.
Tuesday night’s Budget was a slap in the face for all those Australians who voted for the Labor Party at the last election in the [...]
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It’s great that feed-in laws, regarded globally as one of the most effective mechanisms for boosting renewable energy and long-time Greens policy, are finally getting somewhere in Australia.
But it is deeply troubling that, in Victoria, they are being perverted in such a way as to make them greenwash rather than real, effective emissions reduction policies.
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