COUNCIL’S ‘Living in Eurobodalla April 2014’ newsletter arrived in my post recently.
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It has a section titled “Saving power to save money” in which it is stated, “Eighteen months have passed since the Greenhouse Action Plan was adopted and in that time we have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions and saved more than $1 million in energy costs”. It then adds three work-in-process projects where energy savings are expected, and concludes the section with this paragraph: “Our aim is to reduce our total greenhouse gas emissions against the 2005/6 baseline by 25 per cent by 2020”.
This is an atrocious attempt to mislead residents/ratepayers into believing that its claimed financial saving from what should be from normal ongoing efficiency reviews is linked to, dependent upon, and due to, its adopted Greenhouse Action Plan, which aims to reduce “human induced climate change” (read “doom and gloom”).
Council’s attempts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in line with the IPCC/Rudd/Gillard/Combet’s “settled science” projections have been utterly futile. This is evidenced by the world’s increasing use of fossil fuels, and the confused claims of the IPCC’s Report 2 ‘Summary for Policymakers’ of its 5th Assessment, which contravenes the economic projections of the Stern Review 2007 - on which council’s Greenhouse Action Plan is based.
Returning to the newsletter. Does it reconcile with council’s statement in the Bay Post September 27, 2013 that
the actions “from the former 2007-2012 and current 2012-2017 GAP’s generated financial savings of $1 million annually in energy and water costs”?
Why don’t we get out of the morass, start again and be transparent?
Neville Hughes
Surf Beach