Tom Driftwood had quite a year in 2011.
One of the most active people in his local climate action group, Lismore Climate Action, in February 2011 he travelled to the Scenic Rim area on the NSW-QLD border to join a national workshop with the 100% Renewable campaign. Six months later he found himself being photographed with Rob Oakeshott at Parliament House.
MEDIA RELEASE: Wind turbines wrapped in red tape, while coal and gas drills on
Renewable energy campaigners have today condemned the O'Farrell govenrment’s new wind farm planning guidelines as adding more red tape and more delays to the development of renewable energy in NSW.
Well, after sitting a team of fossil fuel execs down in a room together for a year or two, Energy and Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson has a produced a plan for Australia's energy future that recommends....you guessed it, more fossil fuels. Gas, gas, gas! to be precise, with an option to go nuclear in the long term.
There are lots of unanswered questions when it comes to the Coalition and their approach to renewable energy.
During the recent carbon price ruckus in the early part of 2011 there was a lot of rhetoric going about what a price on pollution would and wouldn’t mean.
Great big new tax, price on pollution, polluter pays…..the final winner in this battle of the story was hard to predict.
While progress is being made on implementing the renewable energy parts of the Clean Energy Future package, the process around Australia's exciting new plans to model a 100% renewable energy grid is not yet clear.
Community campaign, 100% Renewable, today welcomed progress on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation from the Government, Greens and Independents but indicated that there is still much to do to deliver on a renewable energy future for Australia.
A report from Dean Bridgfoot, 100% Organiser and member of Mount Alexander Sustainainability Group:
Thursday, Oct 6
I have just come back from a rally in front of the Capital Theatre in Bendigo to demonstrate community support for climate action while Tony Abbott held a invite only “community” forum inside.
There's a bit of kite-flying going on in the coalition at present over the Renewable Energy Target. The renewables knockers in the Liberal and National parties are bringing out the ol' 'renewables are more expensive' stuck record and giving it a turn.
But the experience in South Australia shows that wind is keeping power prices down while cutting emissions at the same time. Here's a media release we put out, explaining the benefits.
