Premier Morris Iemma needs more environmental action rather than words if he wants to clean up this Government’s green record, Greens MLC Ian Cohen said today.
“While the Greens welcome efforts to recycle more water, we will be studying the detail of today’s announcement to ensure the public is not short changed. If the Government was serious about water recycling it would be investing in it itself rather than leaving it to the private sector,” Mr Cohen said today.
“Regardless, the viability of recycling schemes are undermined by the Government’s insistance that it will be building the desalination plant at Kurnell.
“NSW needs tough demand management options and money for alternatives like water tanks in peoples’ homes,” Mr Cohen said.
“These are the real environmental and cost effective alternatives that the Premier has turned his back on.
“If the Premier is to have any green credibility he will use tonight’s function to rule on any new coal fired power stations for NSW and re-think the desalination plant.
“Recycling old announcements from Bob Carr, like the greenhouse innovation fund (announced in 2003) and long term greenhouse targets (announced at a past ALP state conference) will not fool environmentalists.
“After all NSW will not meet those targets without real action now. That means a reconsideration of the greenhouse polluting desalination plant,” Ian Cohen said.
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