The Greens have vowed to fight Scott Morrison\u2019s move to bankroll carbon capture and storage, saying public funds should not be funnelled to billionaire coal and gas corporations for unicorn technology.
\n\u201cThe way to tackle climate change is to get out of fossil fuels, but Scott Morrison wants to funnel public funds to coal and gas corporations for a unicorn technology they haven\u2019t been able to make work themselves,\u201d said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt.
\n\u201cToday, the UN has warned that we\u2019re heading to over 2.4C of warming unless we take urgent action by 2030. It\u2019s time to get out of coal and gas, not fund more of it.
\n\u201cPublic money should go to schools, hospitals and renewables, not to tax-dodging billionaire coal and gas corporations.
\n\u201cCoal and gas are not \u2018clean energy\u2019.
\n\u201cThe Greens secured the CEFC during the 2010 power-sharing Parliament, we made sure it couldn\u2019t fund CCS and we\u2019ll fight this latest attack tooth and nail.
\n\u201cThe government doesn\u2019t need legislation to take ownership stakes in new start-ups. The CEFC can do that already and an investment mandate from the Minister would put it beyond doubt. The only reason the Liberals want legislation is to turn the CEFC into a slush found for coal and gas corporations.
\n\u201cThis is nothing to do with stopping climate change and everything to do with Scott Morrison rewarding the coal and gas corporations that donate to the Liberal and Labor parties.\u201d
\n\u201cThe simplest way to stop pollution is to stop digging up and burning coal and gas in the first place, not to hope unicorn technology will one day stop coal and gas pollution escaping.
\n\u201cHere lies the big trick of Scott Morrison\u2019s climate charade. He pays coal and gas corporations to dig up fossil fuels then pays them to fail at cleaning up their pollution. They win but the rest of us lose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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