[Peakoil] Fwd: [Greens-Media] MEDIA RELEASE - Howard will follow Murdoch on climate: Greens

[Antony Barry]

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> From: "Willis, Katrina (Sen C. Milne)" <Katrina.Willis at aph.gov.au>
> Date: 23 June 2006 12:05:55 PM
> To: <media at lists.greens.org.au>
> Subject: [Greens-Media] MEDIA RELEASE - Howard will follow Murdoch  
> on climate: Greens
>
> MEDIA RELEASE
>
> Friday, 23 June 2006
>
> Howard will follow Murdoch on climate: Greens
>
> News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch has invited Al Gore to a board  
> meeting
> to discuss climate change and it is now only a matter of time before
> Prime Minister John Howard gets on board, the Australian Greens said
> today.
>
> "When the Coalition of the Willing went in to Iraq Rupert Murdoch
> pledged to use News Corp worldwide to support the war, a move that
> influenced global public opinion," Greens climate change spokesperson
> Senator Milne said in Canberra.
>
> "It's obvious that Al Gore's film, An Inconvenient Truth, is already
> having an influence at the highest levels.
>
> "Recognising the power of the Murdoch media empire, Prime Minister
> Howard won't want to go into an election year on the wrong side of the
> debate.
>
> "Even in the United States, which like Australia has not ratified the
> Kyoto Protocol, there has been a massive shift in public opinion as
> business has called for a price on carbon and an emission trading
> scheme, and Australian businesses are catching on," Senator Milne  
> said.
>
> "By contrast, the federal government is moving in the opposite
> direction. There is no plan for Australia to achieve the 60 per cent
> reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050 that is needed to avert  
> dangerous
> climate change.
>
> "In the Senate this week, the government rejected the Greens' move  
> for a
> comprehensive energy inquiry, an alternative fuels policy, and an
> extension of the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target and it baulks at
> requiring companies to implement identified energy efficiencies.
>
>  "The government has dug itself and the nation into a hole on climate
> change, after a decade of stubborn refusal to address the problem.  
> Watch
> as it tries to buy its way out of the problem at next year's federal
> election."
>
>
> Contact: Katrina Willis 03 6234 4566 or 0437 587 562
>
>
> Katrina Willis
> Adviser
> Senator Christine Milne
> Phone 03 6234 4566
> Fax 03 6234 2144
> Mobile 0437 587 562
> www.christinemilne.org.au
>
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