A report commissioned by the NSW government and written by former coal lobbyist Cameron O’Reilly is recommending that the NSW government spend hundreds of millions of dollars per year to extend the life of Eraring coal-fired power station beyond its current lifespan.
“NSW climate targets rely heavily on closing coal, and for good reason - it’s the largest source of climate pollution, and the easiest to phase out.”
Current NSW government climate projections rely on emissions from coal power reducing from 49 million tonnes in 2020 to just 9.5 million tonnes in 2030, the equivalent of just one coal power station, down from the current four.
“We cannot imagine a scenario where the NSW government reaches its own inadequate climate targets if they choose to extend the life of Eraring by even one or two years”.
How about spending that hundreds of millions on renewables and storage instead of subsidising an obsolete unreliable broken down pollution machine?
In other words our governments aren’t even willing to do the bare minimum so that we don’t all suffer from climate change. Shocker.
People should be disappointed? Mad? Violent?
Yes. They won’t. But they should.
Also a proper violent movement would need to be large to be effective. If there’s like… just you and me willing to be violent, then that just sends us to jail.
Are we on a list?
Maybe Santa’s?
His nice list, where he’s gonna give me a solarpanel?
Nah. It’s Lemmy. They don’t even bother monitoring us here, because there’s no ad revenue to be had.
Pretty sure there’s some rather extreme environmentalist groups you can join out there. Good on 'em, although I think they’re going after the wrong targets e.g. frontline workers over ceos.
Why would a wealthy country subsidize a fucking coal plant
this is just pathetic
