Environment news

摘要

The government's white paper on energy dominated the media during 14-18 June.On Monday 14 June,the Queen's Birthday holiday,the Age headlined 'PM puts faith in a fossil future'.Was it a left-wing conspiracy that transformed this into TM puts faith in fossils' in the continuation on page 6?Critics attacked the proposals for removal of fuel excise and the failure to set a higher renewable energy requirement(only 2% at present).Kenneth Davidson summed up the opposition on the Age's opinion page of Thursday 17th under the headline 'A piece of pork wrapped in green',beneath the PM's own article,Towards a post-Kyoto,low emission future'.