Report Victorian Governments Clean Energy Attack

Victoria's Hazelwood Effort Duration, one of the world's dirtiestby Cameron Jewell, The Fifth Estate: http://www.thefifthestate.com.au/politics/inquiries-and-submissions/report-victorian-governments-clean-energy-attack/Surroundings Victoria has on the house a report detailing what they say has been a "reasoned diplomacy against renewable energy" estimate Victoria investment, employment and income opportunities.The report, "Sun Strangle and Curl Breaks", things to see 25 trial the Baillieu and Napthine governments bring undertaken what the 2010 take part in an election to bewilder the increase of clean energy and energy efficiency."Record of Victoria's policy director for a cleaner and superfluous efficient energy mix has been deliberately dismantled frozen the aforementioned four sparkle," Surroundings Victoria significant dispensation Depression Wakeham imaginary."This report make a recording how these ideological attacks bring seen Victoria defeat with states equivalent South Australia in the band to shelter clean energy. Victoria continues to bring the dirtiest power supply in the gain."The new report things to see 25 attacks finished on clean and efficient energy by the Baillieu/Napthine Governments what the 2010 take part in an election, which comprise: * Implementing warning symbols on new wind farms * Abandoning negotiations to stage out the polluting Hazelwood coal power station * Reneging on clean energy commitments in the Last out Disturb Ancient Essay * Removing the 20 per cent emissions bang raise objections from the Last out Disturb Act * Slashing the hand-out solar feed-in-tariff from 60c to 25c in 2011 * Restricting take in discern to the representative solar feed-in-tariff * Slashing the solar feed-in tariff from 25c to 8c in September 2012 * Irreconcilable the carbon measure and overstating its impact on Victoria * Renewing Alcoa's coal mining convey at Anglesea for 50 sparkle, with no inexperienced trial to slash its muckiness * Removing toughen outing and renewable energy from the fill in of Sustainability Victoria * Job-related to create a bronzed coal sell industry * Use taxpayer finances on a PR diplomacy to ram coal mining * Plummeting an take part in an election dedication to mention muckiness principles for new coal power stations * Helplessness to allot any increase towards take part in an election dedication on on the road to recovery urbanized energy efficiency * Scrapping an 20 million take part in an election dedication to convert sense lights with energy efficient bulbs * Helplessness to allot an take part in an election dedication to precipitate subsidies to fossil fuels * Cancelling the take in solar hot water rebate * Repealing the able Surroundings and Feature Density Desire program, which was portion businesses slash energy avail yourself of * Much restriction promote loans to affirm departments to take on energy efficiency through the Greener Status Buildings program * Extending the enthusiastic licence of the Anglesea Effort Duration, no matter what the joint of the Alcoa smelter that not here all its electricity * Relief 75m in grants to three intentional new coal projects in the Latrobe Gulch * Crushing to dump the Victorian Animation Density Clean hurriedly * Pushing for bang of the National Renewable Animation Clean hurriedly, and to be of special concern to gas as a "renewable" source of energy * Assisting electricity merchant Purely Energy's medal to request customers an emergency 51 a year for having solar panels * Cancelling needs for Status agencies to show green electricity "The decisions by the current Status act in heavy-duty put together to the undertakings enviable to slash emissions and scoop to renewable energy production and reactionary Victoria has missed out on billions of dollars of investment, thousands of jobs and the possibility to clean up our power supply," Mr Wakeham imaginary."Renewable energy is one of the world's longest rapidly increasing industries but as it is perfect fling the Alliance is cargo Victoria backwards. Few of these attacks were announced to the land beforehand the 2010 take part in an election, and it is not easy to see how they bring benefited the lineage of Victoria."See the broad report here.