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Their performance so far

It’s fair to say that the Baillieu Government’s record so far on the environment has taken us backwards. (We’re sure you’ve noticed!)

So we’re keeping an eye on all the decisions and actions they’re taking that affect Victoria’s precious environment – for better or worse.

Here are the actions they’ve made so far, current as Friday, 5 May 2012: 

  • Cattle grazing in the Alpine National Park. More
  • Reducing use of the north-south pipeline. More
  • Making windfarms harder to build. More
  • Appointed a Victorian Environmental Water Holder. More
  • Delaying the plan to Save the Murray. More
  • Doubled the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target. More
  • Supporting new coal-fired power stations such as HRL. More
  • Boost to rebates on water-efficiency products so all Victorian households benefit. More
  • Getting rid of water Target 155. More
  • Showing signs that development in national parks will be ruled out. More
  • Extending duck hunting season. More
  • Increasing the landfill levy. More
  • First budget has little for our environment More
  • Victoria's network of parks and reserves will increase by more than 10,000 hectares. More
  • Defunding Environment Victoria. More
  • Providing funding towards a geothermal project in the Surf Coast Region. More
  • Ending talks to replace Hazelwood Power Station. More
  • Investing $5 million in the trial of wave power off  Port Fairy. More
  • Removing all traces of Victoria's Climate Change White Paper. More
  • Investigating options on turning garden scraps into clean power. More 
  • Negative 'lights out' scaremongering. More
  • Creating a five year plan to clean up the Yarra and Port Phillip Bay. More 
  • Scrapping the Climate Communities Fund that's designed to help communities cut emissions. More
  • Investing $5.5 million to reduce the amount of food scraps and organic waste dumped in landfill. More
  • Showing warning signs of dumping the 20 percent target. More
  • Even more on this here
  • Releasing a smart water plan for Melbourne. More 
  • Making it harder to build a wind farm than a new coal mine or coal-fired power station in Victoria. More
  • Committing some funding to support the Mildura solar farm. More
  • Slashing the solar feed-in tariff, breaking an election promise. More
  
  • Their carbon price report is misleading and fundamentally flawed. More
  • Even more on this here
  • It's true. The Minister used his own calculations on the impact of the carbon price. Read more
  
  • Cut access for most households to a second incentive to install new rooftop solar panels. More
  
  • Renewed Alcoa's mining lease at Anglesea for 50 years with no further measures to reduct its pollution. More
  
  • Allowing firewood collection from key national parks. More
  
  • Loggers can seek exemptions from environment laws protecting endangered species under proposed changes. More
  
  • Pipeline decision breaks promise to return water to environment. More
  
  • Securing the long term future for the native timber industry.  More
  
  • Dropping some of Sustainability Victoria's renewable energy and climate programs. More
  
  • Overturning a decision to protect large areas of the Murray River, giving the green light to cattle grazing. More
  
  • Retreating from the decision to introduce a bottle deposit scheme. More
  
  • Opening up new coal allocations for the coal industry. More
  
  • Running a taxpayer-funded PR campaign to improve the image of coal mining and power generation. More
  
  • Dumping the 20% emissions reduction target by 2020. More
  • More here
  
  • Dropping an election commitment to bring in limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new coal-fired power plants. More
  
  • Showing signs of abandoning its pre-election commitment on building standards for new homes and renovations. More

 
  • The state budget fails to deliver on key environment election promises, significantly cuts environment and climate change policy funding and more! More
  • More on this here

 
  • Scrapping a $20 million election pledge to replace energy guzzling street lights with more efficient lighting. More

 


Does this get your blood levels rising? Take Action To see the full list of policy commitments they made ahead of the election hop here

 

 

Ted Baillieu delivered massive cuts to environment programs in the state budget. However in true form, the Government didn't provide any details on which programs they actually cut. Can you help us build a list of specific programs that have been cut so we can get the word out?

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Media resources

Victorian Coalition in dissaray on climate change
Coalition’s condemned for failure to reveal climate change policy
Baillieu hides carbon tax documents
Baillieu coal export push
Baillieu Government’s first budget disappoints on environment
Coal safe come ‘hell, high water’
Climate change ‘ignored’
Government calls off talks on Hazelwood closure
Baillieu: carbon goal aspirational
Coalition missing in action from big decisions about Victoria’s energy future
Victorian Environment Protection Authority approves big pollution hike
Coalition baulks at emission price push
Alpine grazing precedent threatens all National Parks
Legal advice confirms Victorian alpine grazing plans will need federal approval
Minister turns off tap on Target 155

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