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RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@ApaulD" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ApaulD</span></a></span> <br>As reported in the article:</p><p>“A government spokesperson said that “only Labor has a concrete, real plan to see our emissions reduce while ensuring our economy continues to grow”.</p><p>“As we’ve consistently said – gas has an important role to play in the transition as the ultimate backstop for renewables,” they said.”</p><p>Approving <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gas</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extraction</span></a> for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Export" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Export</span></a> DOES NOT play a role in <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Transition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Transition</span></a>. SO Why Approve them? There is bugger all revenue from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PRRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PRRT</span></a> so it’s not money. It’s not <a href="https://aus.social/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> really considering how few jobs we’re talking about in near full employment conditions and it’s not about the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> because our economy grows pretty much in line with population — <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Immigration</span></a>.<br> <br>WHY IS <a href="https://aus.social/tags/LABOR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LABOR</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GREENLIGHTING" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GREENLIGHTING</span></a> ? I’m fed up too (and a party member as well). It’s either money for mates, graft and corruption or else the buggers haven’t got a clue. Not much to choose from then…</p><p>You know what would go a long way… for <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AlboPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlboPM</span></a> to have a heart to heart talk with the electorate. Tell us why this is happening so we can understand the reasons behind it. What we don’t need is <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SoundBytes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundBytes</span></a> that brushes us off. Yes… you <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Anthony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anthony</span></a>, start talking to us!</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetZero</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/InUnity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InUnity</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelExtraction</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>24m ago11.55 AEST<br>Patrick Commins reports in The Guardian Live</p><p>"Pocock says companies ‘taking the piss’ after reform to petroleum resource rent tax</p><p>Independent senator David Pocock and teal MP Zali Steggall say Labor’s 2023 reforms to the petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) did not go far enough and that major gas exporters are still not paying their fair share.</p><p>The PRRT is anticipated to generate $4bn less than when it was tweaked two years ago to ensure the east-coast LNG giants paid some measure of the tax.</p><p>Pocock told the ABC that the PRRT needed to be revisited as companies were “taking the piss”, and that the government had chosen the weakest of a range of reform options, backed by the Greens."</p><p>If <a href="https://aus.social/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>labor</span></a> is going to green light <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelExtraction</span></a> licences and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GasExports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GasExports</span></a> the least <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AlboPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlboPM</span></a> ought to do is jack up the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PRRT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PRRT</span></a> rate to somewhere equitable (I'd say about 80% of net profit is not unreasonable)</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gas</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>If federal and State <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> were truly worried about the cost of energy as well as the pace of energy transition funding to meet <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NetZero</span></a> , there are more effective and timely ways to address these issues than granting extension to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Woodside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Woodside</span></a> ‘s <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gas</span></a> exploitation in an fragile environment,</p><p>1) tax <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelExtraction</span></a> industries appropirately (a la Denmark)<br>2) use tax income to fund electrification and renewables (including storage)<br>3) legislate reserve gas for domestic use, price-capped to mitigate <a href="https://aus.social/tags/costofliving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>costofliving</span></a> pressures<br>4) properly support regional areas in local job creation (use that greedy corporate zeal to make some lasting changes in regional Australia).<br> <br>No extension of gas exploitation was required and the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corporate</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grifters</span></a> can go an f** themselves.</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auspol</span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@fixatedpersonsunit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fixatedpersonsunit</span></a></span> <br>Send a personal message to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SenMurrayWatt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SenMurrayWatt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.murraywatt.com.au/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">murraywatt.com.au/contact/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelExtraction</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WoodsideGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WoodsideGas</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WA</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>After the Wars in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>, ‘Everything Living is Dying’</p><p>Decades of war, poverty and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> and its people.</p><p>By Lynzy Billing, December 29, 2021</p><p>"As far back as 2005, the United Nations had estimated that Iraq was already littered with several thousand contaminated sites. Five years later, an investigation by The Times, a London-based newspaper, suggested that the U.S. military had generated some 11 million pounds of toxic waste and abandoned it in Iraq. Today, the country remains awash in hazardous materials, such as depleted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uranium</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dioxin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dioxin</span></a>, which have polluted the soil and water. And extractive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>industries</span></a> like the KAR oil refinery often operate with minimal transparency. On top of all of this, Iraq is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which has already contributed to grinding water shortages and prolonged drought. In short, Iraq presents a uniquely <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dystopian</span></a> tableau—one where human activity contaminates virtually every ecosystem, and where terms like '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecocide</span></a>' have special currency. </p><p>"According to Iraqi physicians, the many overlapping environmental insults could account for the country’s high rates of cancer, birth defects, and other diseases. Preliminary research by local scientists supports these claims, but the country lacks the money and technology needed to investigate on its own. To get a better handle on the scale and severity of the contamination, as well as any health impacts, they say, international teams will need to assist in comprehensive investigations."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirthDefects</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepletedUranium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IraqWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndlessWar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Toxic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelExtraction</span></a> <br>Read more:<br><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122021/iraq-ecocide/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insideclimatenews.org/news/291</span><span class="invisible">22021/iraq-ecocide/</span></a></p>