[Greens-Media] WA Greens - Corporate welfare payments for carbon polluters - Paul Llewellyn

[Anderson, Sonia]

15 December 2008

CORPORATE WELFARE PAYMENTS FOR CARBON POLLUTERS

The bigger and dirtier you are the more you get paid under the Federal Government's emissions trading arrangements, says Greens (WA) Energy spokesperson Paul Llewellyn MLC.

"The Government's 'free permits to polluters' policy will be a windfall for WA's biggest polluters", Mr Llewellyn said.

"It looks like Griffin Energy's Bluewater coal-fired power station, due to open next year, will be bailed out with around $45m in free permits over the next five years.  This is in spite of the company knowing full well of the risk of being made to pay for its pollution.

"Now it looks like taxpayers pay them to pollute.

"This is only one of a number of corporate polluters who will have their hands out for free permits to pollute.

"This is a shameful waste of money which should be spent supporting clean energy generation from wind, sun, wave and bio-energy," said Mr Llewellyn.


For more information contact Paul Llewellyn on 0428 317 182 or 9848 1555