Combet left red-faced as new green scheme gets the axe - National News - National - General - Busselton-Dunsborough Mail

THE successor to the government's disastrous Green Loans scheme has been scrapped just days before it was due to begin, throwing the jobs of thousands of people into doubt.

The Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, said yesterday the poor state of government records and damning independent assessments of the Green Loans program meant he could not have confidence in the replacement scheme - Green Start - going ahead.
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The government has also been forced to commit $30 million in compensation for the approximately 10,000 people who were trained and accredited to work as household energy auditors, as many had been relying on Green Start to provide them with continued work when Green Loans ended.

The dumping of Green Start is the latest in a long line of problems for the government's environment programs following deaths and house fires in its now-axed home insulation scheme and significant budget blowouts from rooftop solar rebates.

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