The Federal Government has ruled out a deep cut to Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions before 2020, believing the world will not get its act together on climate change soon.
- Emission cuts 15% at most
- Emissions trading to start July 2010
- Business gets many free permits
- Power, coal to get $4 billion aid
- Electricity and gas bills to rise about $6 a week
You have to admire the fact that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is a realist. I have been concerned that Kevin Rudd and Penny Wong had been swayed by the the deep-green lunies screaming for 25-40% cuts.
You’ve seen them too, like John Connor from the Climate institute, Clive Hamilton, Barry Brook and all those upper middle class, inner city university educated green snobs. The mainstream media loves to quote these people as if they represent the majority of Australians.
Kevin Rudd has shown he is a clever politician. He could not completely walk away from his election promise of a carbon emission reduction scheme so some sort of scheme had to be announced.
Rudd has heeded the concerns of rural & regional Australians expressed here on Agmates. He has listened to the unions and most of all he has listened to ‘Howards Battlers’ or as Rudd labels them ‘Working Families’. They are the millions of people who live in the outer suburbs of Australian Capitol cities.
Union Boss Paul Howes was speaking on behalf of not only his members, but all working Australians when he said:
My members and their wives, husbands and children are getting pretty tired of being told their jobs are dirty and polluting…
What Rudd realizes is that to listen to the vocal lunatic-green fringe and commit Australia to deep cuts in carbon emissions would hurt not only rural & regional Australian’s but the Mc-Mansion dwelling inhabitants of Western Sydney. To do this would be political suicide.
Rudd’s announcement may have enraged those deep-greens who live in the leafy inner city, where public transport is available, the tofu co-op is a block away and the local cafe serves fair-trade soy Latte, but at the end of the day there vote isn’t enough to keep him in power.
I’m enjoying watching the screams of horror from the lunatic greens -
Australia’s targets will enrage conservationists, but the Government says it’s unlikely the world can forge a strong greenhouse agreement so its targets are realistic.
Indeed, Mr Rudd was subjected to heckling by a female protester at the launch of the emissions trading scheme.
The female protester, believed to be a member of a Newcastle-based group, screamed ”No!” as Mr Rudd began announcing details of the emissions target. …
from The Australian
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s launch of his greenhouse gas reduction plan was disrupted when three protesters approached him and were wrestled to the ground.
During a televised speech at the National Press Club, three young female environmentalists rose from their seats, walked towards Mr Rudd and heckled as he detailed his plans on climate change.
“We need hope,” one yelled.
“We’re not going to walk away from (action on) runaway climate change,” called out another.
“No, no” the protesters chanted as Mr Rudd spoke of emissions targets.
And why are these people so shocked and horrified?
It’s because they read & believe the Green alarmist hype thats printed in the likes of Rupert Murdocks News Limited Newspaper and the ABC National broadcaster that have been running an outrageously biased green agenda for years.
What they don’t realize is the Australian public is not stupid. Real Australians had stopped lsitening to their Green global warming alarmism hype some time ago.
Kevin Rudd today demonstrated that politically he’s smart enough to know this.
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Treasury modelling released today relies exclusively on a non-existent global agreement and implementation of low emission policies.
Australian Professor Bob Carter [pictured] has slammed the Rudd Governments proposed emissions trading scheme labeling it a ‘a new tax’ and ‘economic vandalism’.
Sydney Radio 2GB broadcaster Alan Jones interview on the subject with
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When Penny Wong and the federal government purchased Toorale station I awarded her an Agmates “Onya” award and watching the program just confirmed to me that the government is doing exactly the right thing in buying back the water licenses.
Senator Heffernan had 10 years in government and did absolutely nothing about the situation. His statement that buying Toorale is a waste of tax payers money shows that he has zero knowledge of how the western river system works.
“We have been talking of a conservative target of 60 to 80 million tonnes a year of natural sequestration, he says.
“Introducing a scheme ahead of other nations was not prosecuting Australia’s national interest, it was prosecuting somebody else’s and we are going to be damned if we do.
“In the cropping sector, 39 per cent of the input costs to cropping came from emission-intensive inputs, while in livestock those costs were about 17 per cent.