Billy Boys Climate Policy

Originally posted by Green Hornet: ↑

Climate policy is on the agenda this federal election, with both Labor and the Liberals introducing measures that could have drastic impacts on the hip pockets of ordinary Australians.

We now know just how severe the implications of Labor’s anti-coal crusade will be, as it is set to destroy jobs and ensure that blackouts become a regular feature of our lives by dismantling our reliable and efficient electricity system.

Renowned Australian economist and climate policy advisor, Dr Brian Fisher, has taken time to do a little research into how Labor's policy will affect the economy. One of the things it will do is destroy 330,000 jobs. It will also lower average wages by thousands of dollars a year.
Their secret carbon tax will hit Australian industries across the board - from our farmers to our tradies, and manufacturers. No one will go unharmed by this disastrous policy. It is just a question of who will be hurt most.

The Australian Energy Market Operator has already forecasted a 1-in-3 chance of severe energy shortages during peak summer demand. We cannot allow Bill Shorten and the Labor Party to jeopardise our energy supply any further.

We need your help to spread the message and fight back against this outrageous attack on our way of life.
Australia produces a minuscule 1.3% of global carbon emissions. Yet ordinary Australians are expected to endure blackouts in the peak of summer, hundreds of thousands of job losses and economic chaos.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Brian Fisher, Abbott's man as well. Has a history of being partly funded by ' high emission ' industries.

One problem was that the modelling was part funded by a series of high emission businesses. An ombudsman investigation observed: “Information obtained by the Ombudsman indicated that ABARE had adopted a funding structure and administrative practices for its climate change research projects which failed to adequately protect ABARE as a public sector research agency from allegations of undue influence by vested interests.”
After successfully seeing off Kyoto, ABARE under Fisher continued to produce assorted reports that argued the government should avoid policies focused on providing an immediate market to pull forward the deployment of emissions reduction technologies (so called ‘technology-pull’ policies, such as carbon pricing, renewable energy targets and feed-in tariffs) on the basis that effective emissions reduction technologies didn’t yet exist.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/business-spectator/abbott-recalls-one-of-the-dirty-dozen/news-story/958bee83a233f0391717c8e7656dd6dd?nk=cae982aad410c68e5cf8ea21ae930a21-1553663677