Scott Morrison\u2019s Emissions Reduction Fund is nothing more than a rort designed to funnel taxpayers\u2019 money to his big coal mates and the funding would be better spent helping coal communities to transition, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201cCoal is the world\u2019s biggest driver of climate change and Australia is the world\u2019s biggest exporter of coal. Without a plan to shift away from coal, this government has no plan to fight climate change, \u201dsaid Senator Di Natale.
\n\u201cInstead of wasting $2 billion reheating Tony Abbott\u2019s failed policy to pay polluters out of your pocket, the\u00a0government would be better off helping coal communities prepare for the future.\u201d
\n\u201cA transition away from coal is urgent and necessary but the Greens want to ensure that it doesn\u2019t leave workers and communities stranded.
\n\u201cA responsible and caring government would have already been investing in a transition plan for the coal workers and communities who will be impacted by this significant structural shift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Scott Morrison\u2019s Emissions Reduction Fund is nothing more than a rort designed to funnel taxpayers\u2019 money to his big coal mates and the funding would be better spent helping coal communities to transition, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale. \u201cCoal is the world\u2019s biggest driver of climate change and Australia is … Continue reading “Greens say ERF funding better spent on coal communities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}