Sign InThe Forum > Article Comments > Carbon - the more you emit the greater the subsidy! > Comments
Carbon - the more you emit the greater the subsidy! : Comments
By Ged McCarthy, published 25/11/2010Can Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott save solar from being a policy basket case?
- Pages:
- ‹
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- Page 5
- ›
- All
Posted by ALGOREisRICH, Saturday, 27 November 2010 2:37:19 PM
| |
Wealth redistribution; You had better read that again, that is not what is being said. Thats what the headline said.
Posted by 579, Saturday, 27 November 2010 2:57:48 PM
| |
I have found a lot of this debate alarming. The NSW Government owns the 3 power companies Energy Australia, Integral Energy and Country Energy. Research commissioned by Lee Rhiannon found that in 9 years 9 billion was spent on subsidies and incentives for coal and coal fired power. In the same time only 640 million was spent on the renewable industry. So 1 billion every year for DIRTY COAL and 67 million for clean energy. See at
http://nonewcoal.greens.org.au/coal/speeches As taxpayers we are subsidising this and have been for years. The spin of the electricity industry has been considerable. Why would we be funding the advancement of coal fired power? Sure we need it as we move to renewables but we will need less and less and hence the incentives must reflect this. The current climate change committee seems to be fixated on a price for carbon. Where's the forward thinking re renewables especially solar? The NGO reference group suggest there has been none http://www.climatechange.gov.au/minister/greg-combet/2010/media-releases/November/mr20101125-a.aspx Posted by Sage Femme, Sunday, 28 November 2010 1:56:50 PM
|
//In New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally reduced the gross feed-in tariff from 60 to 20 cents per kilowatt. Anyone installing solar in the future in NSW will receive less for their clean contribution to the grid than they pay for coal-fired electricity.
In the age of climate change, emissions trading and carbon prices, why is Australia’s solar industry being so poorly treated?//
Simple...because Labor or Liberal...it's all about political survival and NEVER about good policy! The high feed in tarrif was about 'political survival' ...making Labor look more 'Green'.
Now..(especially that the Weath Redistribution scam is out of the bag) the REDUCTION in that feed in tarrif is also about political survival "Oh..we are fiscally responsible"
Learnnnnn young Jedi's....and come over to my side :) I am with 'The Force'...and you can be too. Just stop eating watermelons, and start on the good food of the Lord Jesus. ("I am the bread of life" "He who does not eat my body and drink my blood has no part in me".)