Media release
04 February 2010
New Department of Climate Change
analysis of the Opposition’s climate change
policy has confirmed that it will not achieve
a 5% target by 2020.
The analysis shows that
the Opposition policy will actually see
emissions increase by 13% from 2000 levels.
The analysis is based
on the experience of the Greenhouse Gas
Abatement Scheme.
Tony Abbott said at
his doorstop on 2 February:
ABBOTT: What we are
proposing today is modelled quite closely
on the New South Wales Labor Government’s
GGAS Scheme.
GGAS achieved around
4.7 million tonnes of additional abatement
at a cost of around $200 million - meaning
that each tonne of abatement cost around
$40.
The analysis finds likely
abatement of around 40 million tonnes of
abatement in 2020 – well short of the 138
million tonnes required to meet a 5% target.
Rather than achieve
the minimum 5% emission reduction target,
the Liberal climate con job will actually
see emissions increase by 13% from 2000
levels.
That means taxpayers
will be slugged with a $10 billion tax bill
for a policy that will actually see emissions
increase.
Mr Abbott has been dishonest
with the Australian people about his climate
change policy. We know he thinks climate
change is “absolute crap” and he has confirmed
that with his con job of a climate policy.
It costs more, does
less, and it is unfunded.
There is no point in implementing a climate
change policy that doesn’t tackle climate
change.
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Abbott continues his
climate con job
Media release
02 February 2010
In his first Question Time as Opposition
Leader, Tony Abbott has continued his misleading
and dishonest scare campaign on climate
change.
Tony Abbott said in
the House of Representatives today that
the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction
Scheme “will increase Australian families’
bills by $1000 a year’’.
As the Government has
made clear on more than 10 occasions now,
this figure is just plain wrong.
Tony Abbott himself
admitted in December that his $1000 figure
was based on nothing more than a Google
news search.
The figure of $1000
is almost double the actual impact and completely
ignores the comprehensive cash assistance
the Government will provide to 9 out of
10 Australian households.
Treasury modelling found
the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction
Scheme would cause prices to rise by 1.1
per cent in 2013 – on average costing a
household $624 a year.
And under the Carbon
Pollution Reduction Scheme, more than 90
per cent of all households will receive
assistance. On average these households
will receive around $660 of assistance in
2013.
Tony Abbott has shown
his climate change policy is nothing more
than a climate con job.
The continued use of
this figure shows Mr Abbott is dishonest
and is only interested in running a misleading
scare campaign. He cannot be trusted on
climate change.
