Adam Bandt argues the Greens have come ‘a huge way’ from the party’s original position. Follow live
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Bandt is now asked about the Safeguard Mechanism and calls from the Greens for the government to stop opening new coal and gas projects. He is asked whether his party would “seriously vote against it”.
Bandt then goes into laying out his party’s reasoning: “coal and gas are the main cause of the climate crisis, any effective climate policy should bring down pollution from coal and gas. Labor’s policy doesn’t do that. In fact it gets worse”.
Because that 200 million tonnes they are talking about, (a) it could all just be on paper, because coal and gas pollution keeps going up, as as they buy tree-plants credits on the other side of the country and that’s why it make it is worse. (b) unlimited new coal and gas mines being allowed into the system.
Those coal and gas mines that are on the books at the moment are so big it will wipe out any gains that are made from there. They talk about maybe 200 million tonnes. That might all be on paper. Maybe 200 million tonnes. Open up the Northern Territory gas fields which Labor is talking about at the moment and you are talking about 34 billion tonnes of pollution, new pollution going into the atmosphere.
There is a lot of hand wringing from the Government, a lot of hand wringing about this, but not pulling any of the levers that they can and they are letting the big corporations continue to drive up inflation through corporate profiteering and not doing what they should.
Continue reading…Adam Bandt argues the Greens have come ‘a huge way’ from the party’s original position. Follow liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBandt is now asked about the Safeguard Mechanism and calls from the Greens for the government to stop opening new coal and gas projects. He is asked whether his party would “seriously vote against it”.Bandt then goes into laying out his party’s reasoning: “coal and gas are the main cause of the climate crisis, any effective climate policy should bring down pollution from coal and gas. Labor’s policy doesn’t do that. In fact it gets worse”.Because that 200 million tonnes they are talking about, (a) it could all just be on paper, because coal and gas pollution keeps going up, as as they buy tree-plants credits on the other side of the country and that’s why it make it is worse. (b) unlimited new coal and gas mines being allowed into the system.Those coal and gas mines that are on the books at the moment are so big it will wipe out any gains that are made from there. They talk about maybe 200 million tonnes. That might all be on paper. Maybe 200 million tonnes. Open up the Northern Territory gas fields which Labor is talking about at the moment and you are talking about 34 billion tonnes of pollution, new pollution going into the atmosphere.There is a lot of hand wringing from the Government, a lot of hand wringing about this, but not pulling any of the levers that they can and they are letting the big corporations continue to drive up inflation through corporate profiteering and not doing what they should. Continue reading…