Where would you rather see our taxpayer money invested?
The Government wants to frack, but what does Australia want?
We’ve put together a letter you can sign below and add your ideas for the Federal Government on what they could do with our hard-earned tax dollars.
Please add your name and give us your ideas for where you’d rather see your tax dollars spent.
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To Federal Parliamentarians, Ministers, Departments,
We are alarmed and disappointed to see the Federal Government now rolling out a suite of actions to prop up expensive and dangerous gas fracking across Australia without any proper public accountability.
As voters and concerned Australians, we ask that you hear our message - do not spend our money on gas fracking projects and big new gas pipelines.
Farmlands, water resources and the climate can’t afford to keep propping up polluting gas.
It’s time for Australia to grow stronger and tool up to embrace cleaner energy and storage.
There are a multitude of ways the Government could take a smarter approach to the Covid recovery. The Australian community has many ideas on how we can boost agriculture, tourism, First Nations opportunities, community health and disaster relief.
We know we can create jobs by genuinely supporting diverse Australian businesses, not throwing our money at the gas fracking industry.
We see huge opportunities to help Australia to get off polluting and expensive gas into the future, to modernise our power and heating and to save on gas and energy bills.
I ask that you oppose the measures being rolled out to fast-track gas fracking, including the ill-considered and secretive National Gas Infrastructure Plan, and take on board our ideas for how the money could be better spent.
Yours sincerely,
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Please add some comments.
What would you rather see money spent on?
Here are some ideas:
- Helping Australian businesses get off gas
- Funding community projects in your neighbourhood
- Land stewardship programs
- Supporting First Nations organisations and businesses working on country
- Renewable energy projects and battery storage
- Disaster relief
Tax incentives to purchase EVs
Legislation that supports investment in renewables
Fossil fuel industries have a long track record of environmentally destructive activities and science is telling us that we need to address the global warming urgently.
Apart form local environmental impacts and the threat to our water resources, I note concerns about fugitive methane gas emmissions related to fracking and that, while burning gas releases less CO2 than burning coal, gas cannot be considered a clean fuel.
I believe that government money would be better spent supporting things such as:
Carbon capture and storage, especially using tree planting and kelp farming;
Development of a green hydrogen industry, as proposed by the former Chief Scientist.
Encouraging the replacement of the nations vehicle fleet with electric vehicles
Household and local area battery storage of clean energy.
I believe that much more could be done, must be done, to reduce the nation’s CO2 emissions and that the government must take a leading role.
Gas and fracking are not the way to a sustainable future. The economy of most of the world’s nations is and has been moving to renewables, even conservative governments eg: UK. Please do not let us Australians linger behind everyone.
As voters and concerned Australians, we ask that you hear our message – do not spend our money on gas fracking projects and big new gas pipelines.
Farmlands, water resources and the climate can’t afford to keep propping up polluting gas.
It’s time for Australia to grow stronger and tool up to embrace cleaner energy and storage.
There are a multitude of ways the Government could take a smarter approach to the Covid recovery. The Australian community has many ideas on how we can boost agriculture, tourism, First Nations opportunities, community health and disaster relief.
We know we can create jobs by genuinely supporting diverse Australian businesses, not throwing our money at the gas fracking industry.
We see huge opportunities to help Australia to get off polluting and expensive gas into the future, to modernise our power and heating and to save on gas and energy bills.
I ask that you oppose the measures being rolled out to fast-track gas fracking, including the ill-considered and secretive National Gas Infrastructure Plan, and take on board our ideas for how the money could be better spent.
Australia needs to build a strong, clean, environmental responsible manufacturing stream in order to rely less on imports
We also need recycling solutions that actually work and that stop putting strain on our planet