 | No Cash for the Climate Conscious: New Solar Laws a Fake
Environment groups, local government representatives, industry groups and the Electrical Trades Union protested on Thursday morning over the Brumby Government’s failure to introduce an effective solar feed-in law. The Government has proposed that households with solar power would be paid 60 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity that they feed into the grid. However, this 60 cents will only be paid if households are exporting more energy than they are taking from the grid (known as a ‘net’ model).
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|  | Brown budget fails to recognise urgent green issues
The State Budget was underwhelming and failed to reflect the urgent need to start reducing Victoria’s greenhouse pollution, the State’s peak environment group said today. Environment Victoria CEO Kelly O’Shanassy said the budget had “a few green spots but overall it’s a brown budget. We’re concerned that the budget reflects ‘business as usual thinking’ when we need to urgently redesign our communities and infrastructure if we are to see greenhouse pollution start falling by 2010,” Ms O’Shanassy said.
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