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11 comments on Budget Update 2

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Matt on May 15, 2008 - 8:30am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

The Government is already scrambling to fix up one mistake: the allocation of absolutely no funds to the renewable energy commercialisation program until 2009-10.

And when will they fix up the 1st cardinal sin they have committed: Peter Garrett's approval of a new coal terminal in Gladstone, 1 DAY AFTER THE SUMMIT 2020!!!

For those who don't believe it, here is the link:
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23574040-3102,00.html

ONE of Australia's largest coal terminals has been approved for central Queensland.

Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has signed off on the environmental impact study for Wiggins Island Coal Terminal, an expansion of Gladstone port's coal terminal.

25 million tons of coal => 2.4 x 25 = 60 million tons of CO2 pa. On the fastest way to a different planet Earth. Peter Garrett himself quoted this from NASA climatologist James Hansen during an NSW election ralley in Surrey Hills in early 2007.

More disastrous cyclones in Bangladesh and Burma.
Hansen:

"Contrary to lethargic ice sheet models, real world data suggest substantial ice sheet and sea level change in centuries, not millennia. The century time scale offers little consolation to coastal dwellers, because they will be faced with irregular incursions associated with storms and with continually rebuilding above a transient water level"

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2006/NewSchool_20060210.pdf

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/images/080508-cyclone-pi...

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DRAGONDONK on May 16, 2008 - 3:15am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Peter Garrett's approval of a new coal terminal in Gladstone, 1 DAY AFTER THE SUMMIT 2020!!!

My prediction is that Garrett will quit as Environment Minister, and possibly the ALP, sometime late next year, citing a complete lack of committment by the party to tackling climate change, and other environemtnal issues. He will be particularly scathing about the Prime Minister's interference in his portfolio and being unable to exert any influence on environment policy and simply being directed to approve things that his inner greenie is going apeshit over. I'm sure he must have a purging bucket in his office which he can vent into after each of these approvals and the assocaited press conferences his is forced to give.

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Bellistner on May 17, 2008 - 6:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Garrett sold his soul the moment he joined any of the Big Three. I had little time for him beforehand, and absolutely none afterwards.

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