But industry and green groups say the move constitutes the third such “redirection” of CEFC funding, with $1 billion withdrawn for a loan scheme, and another $1 billion to fund the Great Barrier Reef.. ..Effectively, nearly one third of the supposed independent CEFC’s budget has been corralled by the government for “pet projects’ announced during and in the lead up to the election campaign…“This government has twice tried to axe the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. It’s tried to axe the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), it’s taken the axe to the Renewable Energy Target and now it plans to slash $1.3 billion from ARENA.“Today’s announcement is not new money. It is simply using the Clean Energy Finance Corporation as its slush fund,” Grimes said.
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Solar cells are now so efficient and so cheap, that it’s feasible for Australia to source all of its own electricity from solar cells, and theoretically, supply power for the whole planet.
Let the pics speak for themselves. Any chance they’re loud enough fro Minister Hunt to understand, maybe even do something?
Dr John (Charlie) Veron, otherwise known as ‘godfather of coral’, has been diving off the Great Barrier Reef for 45 years and says the level of deterioration reached so far means that in future, no-one will ever be able to experience it in the way he has…He will soon launch a ‘Corals of the World’ website that aims to preserve the Great Barrier Reef in digital form.
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