fuel crisis

Garnaut can’t see the forest for the trees

This was published in Crikey this afternoon. My release from today is here.

Professor Garnaut’s much-awaited Draft Report [huge file here if the Garnaut website is still down] is, in general, strong on the architecture but terribly weak on the big, over-riding issue – preventing runaway climate change. His policy prescriptions are completely out of step with his science.

Source: GreensBlog - the official blog of the Australian Greens Senators

Opposition populism plumbs new depths

An edited version of this piece appeared in today’s Crikey email.

Not long ago I wrote in Crikey giving the Climate Institute a very hard time over their positioning on geosequestration. While I still think they are utterly wrong on that, I write today to support their excellent report which the Federal Opposition yesterday dishonestly and disingenuously abused in Question Time.

Source: GreensBlog - the official blog of the Australian Greens Senators

Help me make a renewables feed-in law a reality

The Senate Environment Committee is calling for submissions to an inquiry into my renewable energy feed-in Private Member’s Bill, which we negotiated and were successful in having referred earlier this week.

Source: GreensBlog - the official blog of the Australian Greens Senators