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'Green' power installations will see changes in FIT subsidies

Are we going Green or not? We are in a very awkward situation here where the Government's Environmental Departments have made carbon emissions reduction promises to the world at the Kyoto and other conferences, presumably to look big in other countries' eyes, and now we can't get there because promises made are too expensive! There is the debacle of the CRC rewards withdrawal and now the FIT payback rewards reduction. Today I read that the Government has imposed a Green stealth tax on domestic Gas and Electricity bills without notice or consultation. So where is that money going? I'll bet all of it does not end up in an Environmental push to limit carbon deposits. So we end up paying anyway. Why don't they stop wasting time and calculate how much they need to gain the technology and controls to meet Kyoto and take the money from us in one fell swoop, instead of creating convoluted methods and schemes that confuse and angers the people they need to co-operate. This Government is more and more reminiscent of a bunch of apprentices trying to get to grips with running a business and refusing to listen to people who know what to do.

10 Jun 2011

2:57 pm