Still being lied to
So it seems that Bill Shorten will be taking a proposal for a 50% renewable target by 2030 to Labor’s national conference in Melbourne this […]
Renewable Energy Target
Good luck in Paris
On 19 June 2013, Greg Hunt said on Sky News: “We agree on the national targets to reduce our emissions by five per cent […]
“This election is all about trust.”
In December 2012, in an interview on Sunrise, Tony Abbott said “It is never a good thing for a government to break fundamental promises and […]
Tell me what I want to hear
As it becomes increasingly apparent that households will not be $550 a year better off without the carbon tax we hear the rhetoric change. Andrew […]
How about 54% of our electricity from renewables? We could have done it in 2012.
After reading that 27% of energy is generated from renewables in Germany, Gregor Ptok asked himself the obvious question: why isn’t this happening in Australia? […]
The truth about the ‘carbon tax’
Firstly, let’s remember that from June 2007 to December 2012, before the introduction of carbon pricing, average electricity prices rose by 70 per cent, so the […]
An act of betrayal
Before the introduction of carbon pricing Tony Abbott claimed that the price of petrol would go up by 6.5c per litre. It actually went down […]
Renewable Energy Makes Tony sick
Since the introduction of the carbon price in July 2012, emissions from the National Electricity Market serving eastern Australia have fallen about 8.9 per cent, […]