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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.
#auspol
Thread https://twitter.com/TheAusInstitute/status/1262475573600763904
Its out and its worrying
It help polluters with quicker, cheaper, easier reductions at climate's and taxpayer's expense.
#auspol
Thread https://twitter.com/TheAusInstitute/status/1262475573600763904
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 https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-looks-to-carbon-capture-for-climate-action-20200518-p54u4n.html
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 https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-looks-to-carbon-capture-for-climate-action-20200518-p54u4n.html
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 https://www.tai.org.au/content/money-nothing
The gov has already spent $1.3b on CCS with nothing to show for it, see @TheAusInstitute report
Yep clean coal 2.0 https://www.tai.org.au/content/money-nothing
Same problem that created the dodgy Kyoto credits will now be imported into the Safeguards Mechanism!
The mechanism was meant to safeguard the climate by capping polluting facilities, but failed to do so with generous baselines and poor enforcement https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/19/coalition-reveals-new-emissions-reduction-measures-including-paying-polluters-to-stay-under-cap
The mechanism was meant to safeguard the climate by capping polluting facilities, but failed to do so with generous baselines and poor enforcement https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/19/coalition-reveals-new-emissions-reduction-measures-including-paying-polluters-to-stay-under-cap
The King Review recommends crediting polluters that pollute less than their really easy baseline, which they can then sell to other polluters, or the private sector, or back to the government!
Better alternative? Tighten the safeguards baselines!!! https://reneweconomy.com.au/industry-greenhouse-gas-emissions-surge-to-record-high-60-increase-on-2005-levels-with-more-growth-ahead-42198/
Better alternative? Tighten the safeguards baselines!!! https://reneweconomy.com.au/industry-greenhouse-gas-emissions-surge-to-record-high-60-increase-on-2005-levels-with-more-growth-ahead-42198/
It recommends polluters propose new emission cutting methods and also get upfront credits before emissions are even reduced.
What could go wrong?
Earlier this year, lobbying to access credits for coal upgrades was blocked. This is much worse. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/24/push-to-get-taxpayer-funds-for-vales-point-coal-plant-upgrade-rejected
What could go wrong?
Earlier this year, lobbying to access credits for coal upgrades was blocked. This is much worse. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/24/push-to-get-taxpayer-funds-for-vales-point-coal-plant-upgrade-rejected
The (Tiger) King Review is as concerning as it sounds
As @MichaelM_ACT points out it wasn't formally announced, there were no public consultations
Also the Government is agreeing or noting every recommendation (when does that every happen?) https://reneweconomy.com.au/morrison-to-redirect-climate-funds-to-carbon-capture-and-big-emitters-as-king-review-released-69241/
As @MichaelM_ACT points out it wasn't formally announced, there were no public consultations
Also the Government is agreeing or noting every recommendation (when does that every happen?) https://reneweconomy.com.au/morrison-to-redirect-climate-funds-to-carbon-capture-and-big-emitters-as-king-review-released-69241/
On @RNBreakfast with @SabraLane, Minister Angus Taylor is talking "technology not taxes" by using taxes to pay for useless clean coal technology
He is claiming CCS is widely accepted.... as a failure and it is not broadly used. It has broadly failed.
He is claiming CCS is widely accepted.... as a failure and it is not broadly used. It has broadly failed.
Minister Taylor's defense of Carbon Capture and Storage is that its not new, the oil industry has been using!
Yes for Enhanced Oil Recovery!
For storage, CCS has failed massively! Every international CCS target has failed - see @TheAusInstitute report
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P546%20Sunk%20costs%20%5BWEB%5D.pdf
Yes for Enhanced Oil Recovery!
For storage, CCS has failed massively! Every international CCS target has failed - see @TheAusInstitute report
https://www.tai.org.au/sites/default/files/P546%20Sunk%20costs%20%5BWEB%5D.pdf
Blown away that @AngusTaylorMP on @RNBreakfast can blatantly side stepped the Climate Change Authority, built to review climate policies in Australia, and currently doing just that and instead got a fossil fuel executive and corporate lobbyist to conduct a secret review!
Australians should be worried we don't have a climate and energy policy!
And loudly calling for a stimulus package that unites the pandemic response with climate action, like so many other developed countries (New Zealand, South Korean, Germany, Denmark...)
#auspol
And loudly calling for a stimulus package that unites the pandemic response with climate action, like so many other developed countries (New Zealand, South Korean, Germany, Denmark...)
#auspol
Finally if you are keen on more fossil fuelled jiggery pokery check out @TheAusInstitute freshly baked podcast on @AngusTaylorMP's gas fired back fire with me and @ebony_bennett #auspol https://twitter.com/ebony_bennett/status/1262672420206374912?s=19
