In Ted Baillieu’s Victoria, building a wind farm is almost impossible and the feed-in tariff for solar panels has been cut by over 50%. However, building a coal mine 800m from a primary school is OK, and if a mining company wants to dig for coal or drill for gas in your backyard, there’s nothing you can do about it.
Not only are Baillieu’s 19th Century energy policies costing jobs and damaging our economy, they will also result in higher electricity prices.
Victoria is going backwards under Ted Baillieu. Join the march at 1pm, Sunday 13 November, Parliament House. * Cattle trampling our national parks * New wind farms blocked and solar energy attacked * Co2 emissions target ignored * Endangered species habitat logged * New coal-fired power station approved * Anglesea coal mine continued * Green Wedges threatened * Westernport destruction fast-tracked.
Reminder: SAVE SOLAR SYSTEMS RALLY – 5:30 FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER, PARLIAMENT HOUSE The building of the first large-scale solar power plant in Australia is in doubt. The Solar Systems power plant will create 1,000 renewable energy jobs, power 45,000 homes and uses home grown, Australian designed and built, world leading technology. As the administrators look [...]
The Save Solar Systems campaign is asking for your support. The company Solar Systems has gone into administration making 100 workers redundant. This has put the construction of the first large scale solar power plant in Australia in doubt. It was to have been a $420 million project, that would have created 1000 jobs in [...]
While climate scientists all over the world call for a rapid transition away from coal, the Brumby and Rudd governments continue to support this dangerous industry while allowing crucial renewable energy projects to fall over. Over the weekend the State Government announced it was looking into exporting brown coal, the world’s most greenhouse gas intensive [...]
In May of last year, the State Government announced that a feed-in tariff would be introduced in Victoria. A feed-in tariff is a mechanism for encouraging the take-up of solar photovoltaic energy generation (otherwise known as solar panels). It has been very successful in Germany, transforming its solar power industry into a €2 billion export [...]
