Reports Midland Energy have not received the $50,000 taxpayer funds they had been granted for thermal coal exploration in the midlands are welcome.
The Greens welcome the move to establish a renewable hydrogen energy manufacturing industry in Tasmania.
We welcome the Draft Renewable Energy Action Plan’s aim for Tasmania to become a world leader in renewables. That said, there are glaring issues.
The Greens are responding to community demand for action on climate and will be tabling the Safe Climate Bill 2020 in State Parliament next week.
Thermal coal combustion is a key driver of increasing greenhouse gas emissions and rising global temperatures.
The Liberals are funding a coal mining business to conduct exploratory drilling for fossil fuels that scientists are telling us have to stay in the ground.
Between 2016 and 2017, emissions from all major sectors have gone up. Tasmania’s total carbon emissions grew by 1.2 million tonnes in 2016.
The Residential Tenancy Act, as the Government would know, is an act which has many parts of it that need to be updated.
The United Nations has given us until 2030 to dramatically cut carbon emissions and stabilise our climate or risk the world warming more than 1.5 degrees.
The Climate Council’s uncompromising and straight-speaking report confirms what all Tasmanians have lived for the last six weeks.
