The Morrison Government plans to weaken our brightest renewable funds – the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) – to let them splash cash into fossil fuels.
Investors won’t back gas – neither should Australian taxpayers.
Independent and Centre Alliance representatives in our Parliament are powerful voices for public policy in the public interest. They can do a great job in holding the Government accountable.
Their voices and their votes will be critical in the next three months as we work to keep our brightest renewable energy funds clean – and stop the Coalition giving public money to their mates in gas!
We call on Independent MPs Helen Haines, Zali Steggall, Andrew Wilkie and Rebecca Sharkie (Centre Alliance), and crossbench Senators Jacqui Lambie, Rex Patrick and Stirling Griff (Centre Alliance) to use their voices and votes and stand up for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation by:
Keep our clean energy agencies clean – don’t change their remit to support fossil fuels.
Maintain their independence – don’t give the Minister powers to override investment decisions of the independent board
Retain the requirement to deliver a return on investment to Australians – investors won’t back gas, and neither should taxpayers.
Let’s encourage Independents in the House of Representatives to use their voices to speak up for the public interest, as they have on so many important issues.
And let’s encourage Independents in the Senate to use their votes to protect our clean energy funds, as they have in the past.
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Latest Supporters
Jeremy2020-10-16 07:56:47 +1100
Our future prosperity as individuals and as a nation needs strong and immediate action to move away from fossils fuel sources, please do not disrupt support of or reduce financial resources toward renewable energy sources.
warren2020-10-16 07:13:50 +1100
Alex2020-10-16 06:54:07 +1100
Cleaner and Greener finance is a must
Avery2020-10-16 02:13:19 +1100
Work towards a renewable energy sustain a ble and health future rather than gas and coal please Helen, and pass this on to our Minister of Environment Sussan Ley and tell her gas tracking and new coal and Adani coal projects are not okay. Thank you for speaking up in Parliament about Climate change. Kind Regards from Roy William Mills
Roy2020-10-16 00:17:46 +1100
Greg2020-10-15 20:55:34 +1100
Janice2020-10-15 20:32:40 +1100
Patricia2020-10-15 19:01:03 +1100
Ellie2020-10-15 18:34:35 +1100
Jurgen2020-10-15 18:33:03 +1100
thanks for all the work you are doing
kyla2020-10-15 18:00:05 +1100
Matt2020-10-15 17:26:00 +1100
Ed2020-10-15 16:48:43 +1100
There is no such thing as carbon capture and storage – it is pure fiction.
Lyn2020-10-15 14:46:03 +1100
Duncan2020-10-15 14:26:09 +1100
Ricardo2020-10-15 12:55:02 +1100
Paul2020-10-15 12:43:56 +1100
Ron2020-10-15 11:53:18 +1100
Let’s create new industry and jobs, lower the cost of power to struggling households and lower Australia’s carbon emissions .
Catharine2020-10-15 11:12:02 +1100
Hugh2020-10-15 10:32:19 +1100
Lauren2020-10-15 10:10:47 +1100
Or be voted out
Sherryl2020-10-15 09:52:48 +1100
Barbara J2020-10-15 07:57:33 +1100
Jeremy2020-10-15 06:12:23 +1100
Esther2020-10-15 06:11:34 +1100
Liz2020-10-15 01:04:43 +1100
jemima2020-10-14 22:15:48 +1100
Otto2020-10-14 19:19:43 +1100
To our independent MP’s,
Please keep ARENA and the CEFC clean, independent and focused on the best long-term energy options for Australia. Surely gas is at best a transitional energy source which should be funded by some other agency until battery technology advances sufficiently. The party of the ‘free market’ is becoming rather fond of market interventions – when it suits them!!