[Greens-Media] Qld Greens media release: Beattie Content to See Jobs and Export Income Lost

[Qld Greens Media]

*QLD GREENS MEDIA RELEASE*

*Tuesday 29^th August 2006*

*Beattie Content to See Jobs and Export Income Lost*

Last night's 4 Corners program highlighted in no uncertain terms how the 
Queensland premier wants to maintain the state's economy as a twentieth 
century backwater.
He specifically rejected carbon emissions trading and supported the 
Prime Minister's rejection of the goal of 60 per cent reductions in 
carbon emissions by 2050.
Queensland is also spending $300 million on developing the technology 
for burying carbon emissions, a technology that might never be perfected 
and, furthermore, is twenty years into the future.
Greens state spokesperson Juanita Wheeler described Mr Beattie's 
reaction as out of step with directions in modern world industry.
"Peter Beattie wants to keep this state in thrall to dirty, polluting 
industries while much of the rest of the world is investing in future 
industries," she said.
"This is the Sunshine State with fewer solar hot water systems than most 
other states.

“While New South Wales and Victoria have introduced state-based 
renewable energy targets, Queensland has no system for requiring minimum 
percentages of electricity to be sourced from renewables.

"Queensland should also be signing up with the other states to a carbon 
emissions trading scheme that would reduce these emissions and encourage 
the development of 21st century industries.

"We have a significant competitive advantage in such areas as geothermal 
and solar, not just coal and we should be competing with the most 
advanced economies in the world not just racing to the bottom with the 
rest of the resource extraction, last century ones," Ms Wheeler said.


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For further information please contact:
Juanita Wheeler
Candidate for Mount Coot-tha
Spokesperson, Queensland Greens

Mobile: 0402 487 110


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