Gillard says a carbon price must be set this year or it will never happen
Delivering the annual Don Dunstan address in Adelaide last night, the Prime Minister acknowledged she was ''taking a few knocks'' but said, ''I chose action over inaction because of this simple truth: if Australia does not adopt a carbon price in 2011, we probably never will.''
...
Ms Gillard said a carbon price would create jobs. She gave as examples welders and steelworkers building and maintaining large-scale solar plants, and plumbers and electricians installing domestic solar energy systems.
Ms Gillard said human-induced climate change was real and opinion polls could not change that. ''I ask, who would I rather have on my side?'' she said. ''Alan Jones, Piers Akerman and Andrew Bolt?
''Or the CSIRO, the Australian Academy of Science, the Bureau of Meteorology, NASA, the US National Atmospheric Administration, and every reputable climate scientist in the world?''
No comments:
Post a Comment