Lignite or Lignitemare?
That's the question I'll be asking when the coal debate heats up.
With taxpayers (that's us!) forking out for an ETS bill that seeks to pay for our greenhouse gas emmissions, how can we at the same time, support the creation of millions of tonnes of extra gases, through the release of lignite from the ground?
We'll have to pay for that on top of the bill we're footing now.
Have Southlanders thought this through?
No matter how they spin it, and they're spinning hard already, lignite is dirty stuff.
Turning it into briquettes, urea or diesel does nothing to reduce the reality that what has been solid carbon, safely stored underground, is going to go up into the air as a harmful greenhouse gas.
And that's what we are paying for now.
And one way or another, whether through increases in the ETS tax or through the effects of climate change, we'll pay again in the future.
Turning it into briquettes, urea or diesel does nothing to reduce the reality that what has been solid carbon, safely stored underground, is going to go up into the air as a harmful greenhouse gas.
And that's what we are paying for now.
And one way or another, whether through increases in the ETS tax or through the effects of climate change, we'll pay again in the future.
Leave it in the ground and call it lignite.
Dig it up and it's Lignitemare.
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