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\"Renewables

Image: Markus Spiske<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Uniting Church WA and Uniting Church VIC TAS are encouraging their members to write letters expressing concern over renewable energy funding to several senators.<\/p>\n

According to Revive Magazine<\/a>, a publication of the Uniting Church in Western Australia, the two branches are troubled by the potential for funds from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) being made available to fund carbon capture and storage.<\/p>\n

The concerns are based on some of the 26 recommendations from the King Review<\/a> earlier this year, which was led by former Origin Energy CEO and Business Council of Australia president Grant King. The panel was tasked with providing advice on how Australia can lower its emissions while supporting the economy, businesses and households.<\/p>\n

The Morrison Government supported most the recommendations<\/a>, including providing a new category under the Emissions Reduction Fund<\/a> for carbon capture and storage. It also approved in principle to the recommendation to provide ARENA and the CEFC with an expanded, “technology-neutral” remit.<\/p>\n

Currently, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a banned technology<\/a> under the CEFC’s investment guidelines, and ARENA needs to keep its distance too.<\/p>\n

The two branches of the Uniting Church believe polluters should pay clean up their own mess.<\/p>\n

“Fossil fuel businesses already make vast profits and should be required to fund their own development of technologies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the CEFC usually doesn’t give away free money, ARENA does.<\/p>\n

Keeping The Fossil Fuel Nightmare Alive<\/h2>\n

As the term suggests, carbon capture and storage basically involves capturing carbon dioxide from processes such as electricity generation and transporting it to a site for (hopefully) very long-term storage underground. Essentially it’s a very expensive<\/a> way to sweep dirt under a rug when it makes more sense to not bring dirt into your house in the first place where it can be avoided.<\/p>\n

Some of the concerns associated with CCS include abrupt leakage through injection well failure or from abandoned wells, and gradual leakage through undetected faults.<\/p>\n

An example of what can happen through the sudden release of huge quantities of carbon dioxide occurred at Lake Nyos in Cameroon<\/a> in 1986. However, the Lake Nyos disaster, which killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock, was a natural event and most proposed (and the few operational) CCS projects are in unpopulated areas.<\/p>\n

The viability and safety of CCS is a hotly debated topic – but another major issue is the lure of CCS helps keeps the fossil fuel dream<\/span> nightmare alive; and with it the myriad other problems associated with finding, extracting, producing and burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Renewable Energy The Way Forward<\/h2>\n

The Uniting Church branches are requesting members write (polite and respectful) letters to Senators Rex Patrick, Jacqui Lambie and Stirling Griff; asking them to commit to opposing changes to CEFC and ARENA investment guidelines that would allow further cuddling up to fossil fuels. Gas is also in the organisations’ cross-hairs.<\/p>\n

“Express concern for investment in the gas industry as a post-COVID recovery strategy and highlight that renewable energy is the way forward.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

.. and there’s been a fair bit written about the benefits of a post-COVID recovery led by renewables.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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