Carbon Tax Repeal No Effect

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9 yrs ago

Abbot government repeal of the carbon tax was passed by parliament, given Royal Assent on the 17th July 2014 to be back dated to 1st July 2014, stating an immediate drop in consumer electricity costs immediately.

No, all the above bull, today I checked on my account with AGL and there has been no change in charges, in fact, the supply charge went up by I think 70% directive as of July 1st 2014; my question to anyone is, if the dropping of the carbon tax has made no difference with AGL, is it, or has it been the same with other electricity suppliers?

I know you've heard all this ya-de-ya before about doing it tough on pensions, but fair go AGL...

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geomac

9 yrs ago

Better cotton on

A perfect storm is about to hit the government, funnily enough due to something they think helped get them elected - their antipathy towards anything with a scientific or green tinge to it. Things like renewable energy (''utterly offensive''), climate change (''complete crap'') and science ($112 million cuts to CSIRO and no science minister). Then add state government policies, such as a ban on wind turbines within two kilometres from homes.

The conservatives' scorched earth approach to the renewable energy industry will increase the cost of solar systems, cut thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of investment from the economy, hand $9 billion profit to coal-fired generators and make us look like mugs to a world that is increasingly embracing the new energy approach.

The government's own modelling shows that keeping the RET will result in lower power prices after 2020, due to the zero cost of fuel. Global warming and the demand for cheaper, renewable energy in the face of ever rising power costs aren't going away. Most Australians get this, and will vote out any government that doesn't.

Barry Mann, Woodend

Abby

9 yrs ago

RE :

ban on wind turbines within two kilometres from homes.

There is sound and vibration issues that affect people in close proximity but as far as I am concerned these wind turbines would not be allowed at all.

Their environmental impact is higher than the modern coal produced electricity and less efficient.

geomac

9 yrs ago

Abby

I have a coal mine less than 1 mile from my home and there was no law introduced to ban future mines being as close again . After the fires in Feb and a month of smoke and dust it might be said a one off . The dust is always present as is the pollution .

I find it very odd that farms that have wind turbines suffer no ill affects by the owners yet a very small group of adjacent farmers claim illness . I think it has been classified as resentment for not having the wind turbine income . There is no medical evidence of affect and the fossil fuel brigade fund the anti mob .

What spans 1,600 hectares, cost $2.2 billion to build, and potentially fries hundreds of thousands of birds per year? The new BrightSource solar power plant in California’s Mojave Dessert. The plant, which uses some 350,000 garage-door-sized mirrors to focus sunlight on three boiler towers, also acts as a death ray, instantly igniting and killing any wildlife that happen to fly through the intense beam of light. Wildlife officials are concerned that this concentrated solar power plant, and others like it, could turn into “mega-trap” that decimates the ecosystem — first attracting insects, and then attracting birds that eat insects. BrightSource, in the mean time, is forging ahead with an even larger solar power plant that officials say could kill four times as many birds. Won’t somebody stop these not-so-green nature-killing maniacs?

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188328-californias-new-solar-power-plant-is-actually-a-death-ray-thats-incinerating-birds-mid-flight

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