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Must Acy Now to Save Our Solar!
"We ain't seen nothing yet"--The Government's Climate Advisor Ross Garnaut on the extreme weather devastating Australia.1 Click here to stand up for renewable energy over dangerous fossil fuel pollution.
Hello Every1,
In order to pay for a flood disaster made more likely by dangerous fossil fuel pollution,2 the Gillard Government wants to cut or defer $250 million from the Solar Flagships program, meant to fund large-scale solar power stations in Australia.
But we've found a $600m loophole in the way polluting crude oil production is taxed. If closed, it would easily allow the Prime Minister to keep supporting renewable energy while helping Queenslanders and Victorians.
The flood package is being debated in Parliament this week, so we need to act urgently to influence the Prime Minister. That's why we've designed Australia's first full page political cartoon ad. It's sure to have politicians spilling their coffees over their morning papers this week.
Click here to get a full page ad in The Australian that confronts the Government with the absurdity of the current proposal.
Here's how the loophole works: having previously promised to tax the crude oil produced by gas companies as a by-product of production (known as condensate) the former Rudd Government gave in to industry lobbyists who bullied politicians into giving them a cheaper tax rate for their polluting oil production if their facility was built before 18 September 1975.
It's an arbitrary policy that was the result of industry lobbying. Just a fortnight ago, Treasury estimated that this benefits the bottom line of big polluters to the tune of $600 million a year.
As significant parts of Victoria are still underwater, as bushfires rage in Western Australia and as Sydney emerges from the biggest heatwave since records started in 1858, we know that cutting clean energy programs is the last thing we should be doing.
Click on this link to see the cartoon and fund the ad:http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontCutSolar
Thank you for speaking out,
The GetUp Team
PS -- We're hiring! Are you a talented campaigner? Or can you help us get organized as we scale our work as our Executive Officer? Know someone who you think would be great? Suggest someone to us (or suggest yourself) here
Sources:
1 Taylor, Lenore, 'Future cyclones could be more extreme: Garnaut', The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 2011.
2Hennessy et al., 'Australia and New Zealand' in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 507-540, 2007.
Hello Every1,
In order to pay for a flood disaster made more likely by dangerous fossil fuel pollution,2 the Gillard Government wants to cut or defer $250 million from the Solar Flagships program, meant to fund large-scale solar power stations in Australia.
But we've found a $600m loophole in the way polluting crude oil production is taxed. If closed, it would easily allow the Prime Minister to keep supporting renewable energy while helping Queenslanders and Victorians.
The flood package is being debated in Parliament this week, so we need to act urgently to influence the Prime Minister. That's why we've designed Australia's first full page political cartoon ad. It's sure to have politicians spilling their coffees over their morning papers this week.
Click here to get a full page ad in The Australian that confronts the Government with the absurdity of the current proposal.
Here's how the loophole works: having previously promised to tax the crude oil produced by gas companies as a by-product of production (known as condensate) the former Rudd Government gave in to industry lobbyists who bullied politicians into giving them a cheaper tax rate for their polluting oil production if their facility was built before 18 September 1975.
It's an arbitrary policy that was the result of industry lobbying. Just a fortnight ago, Treasury estimated that this benefits the bottom line of big polluters to the tune of $600 million a year.
As significant parts of Victoria are still underwater, as bushfires rage in Western Australia and as Sydney emerges from the biggest heatwave since records started in 1858, we know that cutting clean energy programs is the last thing we should be doing.
Click on this link to see the cartoon and fund the ad:http://www.getup.org.au/campaign/DontCutSolar
Thank you for speaking out,
The GetUp Team
PS -- We're hiring! Are you a talented campaigner? Or can you help us get organized as we scale our work as our Executive Officer? Know someone who you think would be great? Suggest someone to us (or suggest yourself) here
Sources:
1 Taylor, Lenore, 'Future cyclones could be more extreme: Garnaut', The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 February 2011.
2Hennessy et al., 'Australia and New Zealand' in Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 507-540, 2007.
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