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Written by The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen, the video takes a left-field approach to spread Greenpeace’s message through networking sites such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and MySpace.
Electricity generators are pressuring Rudd into giving them a one-off cash payment to help them pay for the price on carbon when the CPRS comes in.
“Just imagine if that $1.2 billion of public money was spent on buying solar hot water heaters instead. We could install one on every home in Adelaide, significantly reducing electricity bills for families,” said Simon Roz.
“It’s the taxpayers and average Australians who are being ripped off. Yet it’s most likely that consumers will be paying twice for dirty energy – once in increased prices and once in compensation from the public purse.”
Even the federal government's own climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut has rejected arguments for electricity generators to be compensated for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.
"Whether or not you make a one-off sum transitional payment to generators won't affect increases in electricity prices one little bit," Garnaut said at the launch of his final report.
But Mr Rudd has one last chance to stand up to the Greenhouse Mafia lobby campaign before the final release of the CPRS later this year.
We might not have the budget for colossal lobby campaigns like coal corporations do, but we do have the influence of the masses.
Join hundreds of others during the Emergency Week of Action on Climate Change on 3-7 November by booking a time to call Rudd and telling him how you want public money spent.
Voters are Mr Rudd’s real support-base, not greedy coal corporations.
Kevin Rudd still has the opportunity to show true leadership on climate change by standing up to the biggest greedy polluters and standing up for the people that voted him in.
Watch the cheeky video and book your call to Mr Rudd
Coal compensation scam
“We want to expose the scandal that coal-fired power generators could be given a staggering $1.2 billion dollars under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS),” Greenpeace campaigner Simon Roz says. “And although compensation for coal generators might not be paying to barbecue your cat, it is paying the greedy coal industry to bake our earth.”Electricity generators are pressuring Rudd into giving them a one-off cash payment to help them pay for the price on carbon when the CPRS comes in.
“Just imagine if that $1.2 billion of public money was spent on buying solar hot water heaters instead. We could install one on every home in Adelaide, significantly reducing electricity bills for families,” said Simon Roz.
“It’s the taxpayers and average Australians who are being ripped off. Yet it’s most likely that consumers will be paying twice for dirty energy – once in increased prices and once in compensation from the public purse.”
Even the federal government's own climate change adviser Professor Ross Garnaut has rejected arguments for electricity generators to be compensated for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme.
"Whether or not you make a one-off sum transitional payment to generators won't affect increases in electricity prices one little bit," Garnaut said at the launch of his final report.
Our chance to change history
But Mr Rudd has one last chance to stand up to the Greenhouse Mafia lobby campaign before the final release of the CPRS later this year.
We might not have the budget for colossal lobby campaigns like coal corporations do, but we do have the influence of the masses.
Join hundreds of others during the Emergency Week of Action on Climate Change on 3-7 November by booking a time to call Rudd and telling him how you want public money spent.
Voters are Mr Rudd’s real support-base, not greedy coal corporations.
Kevin Rudd still has the opportunity to show true leadership on climate change by standing up to the biggest greedy polluters and standing up for the people that voted him in.
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