Gas tax "hit" is so puny that even APPEA's gas lobbyists reckon it's good. Chart here by @DanielBleakley tells the story #auspol
https://t.co/lLkAicRC5I
I was curious, when I heard @AdamBandt say 'stop pouring petrol on the fire as you try to put it out' wrt climate - what's the ratio?
By my calculations for the Aus gov't: 3% putting it out, 97% pouring petrol on.
New @renew_economy piece ->
https://t.co/Iu9GW0waGq
The gas industry lobby group APPEA have put some ads on social media boasting about how much tax and royalties the gas industry pay.
Here's what they don't tell you.
Climate & Energy Principal Advisor @MarkOgge explains. #auspol
A new low for Australian governance: Transparency International lists Australia as a 'country to watch' for worsening corruption. Quite an achievement for the Morrison government https://t.co/buIwNXcOTr
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon credits and offsets scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative!
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We're now in our third disaster season since the $4.8 billion dollar Emergency Response Fund was created, and not a cent has been spent on disaster recovery and not a single disaster readiness project has been built.
Some statistics to start the year:
During 2021 Bitcoin consumed 134 TWh in total, which is comparable to the electrical energy consumed by a country like Argentina.
Related CO2 emissions were ~64 Mt; enough to negate the entire global net savings from deploying EVs.