Green energy hopes for Hunter - ABC Newcastle NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Hunter residents are being warned a failure to recognise the benefits of a green energy boom could cost them their jobs.

Hundreds of workers have been informed their jobs will go when a Kurri Kurri aluminium smelter shuts its doors.

Doctor Evans says they will not be the last to go.

"Investment in renewable energies will promise a lot more jobs than current investments in coal fired power stations or even in industries that are currently dependent on coal fired power stations," he said.

"But if the Government doesn't invest in that, then we're going to see a lot more job losses in industries like aluminium and including primary industries."

Quadrant Online - The unbearable stench of fishiness

Years of government fear-mongering about evil “carbon” and propaganda about “clean energy” have produced a new inconvenient truth: there is no prospect of turning its contrived climate disaster narrative – one it now desperately wants to disown - into anything other than a very expensive fishy farce.

So the game of climate-change subterfuge continues, with the announcement of a $14 million ($22 million budgeted for next financial year) television campaign: The Red Herring Assistance Package: Benefiting those who need it most.

Designed to advertise compensation payments to offset [partially] increased costs after 1 July - when the carbon [dioxide] tax [price] is imposed on energy service providers (aka “polluters”) – the government ads neither mention the carbon tax nor attempt to explain how it will create a benign Goldilocks climate, one just right for Australia.