NSW Labor Two-Faced on Climate Change
Rev Hon Dr Gordon Moyes has called the NSW Government “two-faced” when it comes to the issue of climate change.
“The first, green, face heralds the Government’s Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme. However, simultaneously, the opposing second face is covered in grubby black soot, with its commitment to polluting coal-fired power as opposed to nuclear or other zero emissions technologies such as solar or wind,” Dr Moyes told Parliament. “The Government’s greenhouse policy is like the Roman God Janus: remarkably two-faced.”
“When it comes to the fine print, this Government continues the green spin while daily taking decisions that perpetuate New South Wales’s booming greenhouse gas emissions for the next two generations,” Dr Moyes said.
“Only today in question time the Minister for Mineral Resources, the Hon. Ian Macdonald, lauded the Government’s record in developing the coal industry. He proudly told the Chamber that coal exploration had doubled in New South Wales in the past six months, and he referred to the importance of further increasing the mining of coal,” Dr Moyes said.
Dr Moyes asked when, if at all, the Government would achieve the carbon emission targets that it has set for the state. “Will it be 2015, 2025 or 2035? When will it occur? I suspect, because of this Government’s commitment to perpetuating coal-fired power, we will not see any abatement in emission levels for a long time—certainly not in my lifetime. New coal-fired power plants continue to be planned and to be built, each with a lifespan of decades.”
To read Dr Moyes’ full speech click here.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
Rev Hon Dr Gordon Moyes
Dear Gordon
Thank you for your stand. I am all for zero emmissions technology. Bring on the wind and solar power, not nuclear,I say.
God Bless
Carol Ordish