White paper?

Martin Ferguson, the Federal Lackey for Mining Bastards, and his Department of Resources, Energy, and Tourism, have released an ""Energy White Paper"", detailing the Government's plans for the future of energy industries in Australia. Synopsis: "we gotta lotta coal, and we're gonna dig it up as fast as we can, and we're gonna burn it, and we're gonna sell it." They may be calling it a white paper, but it has the black fingerprints of the coal industry all over it.

The Government is taking public comments on the "white" paper. You can use this website to make some.

The International Energy Agency has said that if we want to reduce greenhouse pollution to a level that can prevent runaway climate change, demand for coal has got to peak in the next few years. It's a reality Australia needs to grapple with, so why is Martin Ferguson producing a policy paper that appears as though it were written by fossil fuel corporations?

We know that burning coal is causing climate change, yet the Government says Australia needs 30-60 billion invested in domestic coal power between now and 2030. As for export coal, that they plan on tripling. What? Didn't they promise there would be no new dirty coal power? Didn't they promise to cut carbon pollution? Australia's greenhouse gas pollution is still rising, and our insistence on propping up the coal industry is holding back efforts to cut the pollution and get on with tackling climate change.