Tag Archives: Greg Hunt

FactCheck: did carbon emissions fall faster before the carbon price?

Emissions fell by six times the rate in the five years before carbon tax than under carbon tax. – Environment minister Hunt, The Guardian, Jan 17, 2015. Australia’s total greenhouse emissions have been declining since 2007, the year the Rudd Labor Government … Continue reading

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Court challenge will test coal mining’s climate culpability

New legal challenge to proposed Carmichael coal mine – Australia’s largest – will test in federal court whether climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions should be taken into account when assessing prospective coal licences in Australia. The challenge, by New South Wales Environmental Defenders Office on … Continue reading

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Time to cut the crap about “clean coal”

Here’s a review of accumulated mythology of  “clean coal”, old and new. Minister for unEnvironment Greg Hunt has recently been proclaiming, yet again, that he’s confident of breakthroughs in the next 5years. What he’s taking about is the DICE engine, a … Continue reading

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Greg Hunt: The ‘extreme left is against electricity’

This was overlooked earlier in the year, Federal Environment Minister Hunt dancing to tunes for TV Bolt Report audience of , Andrew Bolt, Murdoch’s controversy mongrel. Of course he makes this claim about folks who oppose dependency on foreign owned, extortionate, big … Continue reading

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Tony Abbott appoints climate skeptic to “help” on environment

Bob Baldwin, a man who once compared impact of Australia’s man-made greenhouse gas emissions to that of a single strand of human hair on a 1km bridge, has been appointed parliamentary secretary to the minister of the environment. ..Today Show…promote … Continue reading

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Greg Hunt rolls DICE(Direct Injection Coal Engine) betting on clean coal

Greg Hunt is confident about new technology. This is it. He claims it will make brown coal as clean as black coal!!! First tinkerings by Germans, as long ago as WW1. Mega $ here at time of 70’s oil crisis, … Continue reading

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Greg Hunt (un)Minister for Lies

Looks like Greg needs to get a cosmetic surgery job so that his facial expressions don’t so obviously show that he can’t believe the nonsense that comes out of his mouth! How can he deny he wrote the paper about “tax to make … Continue reading

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Greg Hunt: The ‘extreme left is against electricity’

Of course, our unMinister for Environment has been cause for concern previously but  he lost it completely on TV with shock jock Andrew Bolt. If only he had one more neurone, he might even have a synapse! >readmore> RenewEconomy

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Hunt doesn’t understand CEC modeling on Renewable Energy Target

Despite Phoney Tony’s Tea Party denials, ad infinitum, it’s actually mortgage belt and elderly folks who have been installing more and more rooftop PV. It’s these and wind farms which keep power prices low on dreaded, very occasional peak power days. … Continue reading

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Greg Hunt – why we need carbon tax

“Ultimately it is by harnessing the natural economic forces which drive society that the pollution tax offers us an opportunity to exert greater control over our environment.” Greg Hunt. In 1990 Greg Hunt co-authored a university thesis entitled A Tax to Make … Continue reading

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