THE opposition has unveiled plans to scrap at least five major climate change agencies and dozens of programs as part of its removal of the carbon tax if Tony Abbott wins the next election.
Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt labelled Labor’s climate change package, which begins from July 1, a “spaghetti soup”, and produced a map showing 11 departments overseeing at least 36 programs.
“Many of them are simply about buying off groups that may be disaffected,” he said. “Or paying off favoured friends.”
Mr Hunt said many of the programs were contradictory, citing the plans to pay for high-emission brown-coal generators to close while another part of the scheme involves an energy security fund that would pay coal-fired power stations to keep operating.
The Coalition would proceed with its plans to scrap the Department of Climate Change and merge its functions with the Environment Department, he said.
The opposition has vowed to make scrapping the carbon tax its top priority if it wins government. But it retains a bipartisan commitment to cut emissions by 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020, and says this will be done through a direct action program that provides funds for emission reductions and abatement initiatives such as tree planting and increasing the carbon content of soil.
The government says its market mechanism of an emissions trading scheme will be cheaper and more effective, but Mr Hunt said the Coalition’s program would attack bureaucratic waste and duplication.
The Coalition plan would scrap the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the Energy Security Council, the Climate Change Authority, the Climate Commission and the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute.
The Coalition would also dump the government’s jobs and competitiveness program, which provides compensation to emissions-intensive trade exposed industries.
Andrew Bolt: Liberals start stripping the warming wagon
The Coalition would save billions more if it dared to be truly sceptical of the great global warming scare:
THE opposition has unveiled plans to scrap at least five major climate change agencies and dozens of programs as part of its removal of the carbon tax if Tony Abbott wins the next election.Coalition climate action spokesman Greg Hunt labelled Labor’s climate change package, which begins from July 1, a “spaghetti soup”, and produced a map showing 11 departments overseeing at least 36 programs.
“Many of them are simply about buying off groups that may be disaffected,” he said. “Or paying off favoured friends.”
Mr Hunt said many of the programs were contradictory, citing the plans to pay for high-emission brown-coal generators to close while another part of the scheme involves an energy security fund that would pay coal-fired power stations to keep operating.
UPDATE
What a complete joke. Labor brings in a carbon dioxide tax to close our worst “polluters”, and then spends millions to save, er, our worst “polluters” from it:
THE Point Henry aluminium smelter has been offered a $42 million lifeline by the Gillard government which, if accepted, would guarantee the future of the Geelong plant for the next two years and save hundreds of manufacturing jobs on the eve of the introduction of the carbon tax.
A stupid tax to cripple business now includes handouts to keep the most unionised ones open.
“The opposition has vowed to make scrapping the carbon tax its top priority if it wins government. But it retains a bipartisan commitment to cut emissions by 5 per cent on 2000 levels by 2020…”
Translation: The Ausies are screwed no matter who wins.
On the contrary, if the Coalition is elected, sense will prevail and this “bipartisan commitment to cut emissions….” is merely to make the electorate happy for now.
If they came out too early with plans to do away with ‘emissions’ cutting, they would be purloined by the media which is predominantly left-wing.
Slowly and softly, slowly and softly.