Green Eurocrats threaten our industries

The EU has long sought to impose its carbon dioxide abatement policies on the rest of the world. A major setback to this was the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009 where Kevin Rudd sought to play a major role.

Clearly operating under the EU Commission’s strategy, the European Ambassador in Canberra Australia, Michael Pulch, has been making increasingly aggressive threats to Australian market access unless we further lift the penalties we place on the use of the low cost, high CO2 emitting coal that accounts for two-thirds of our electricity generation.

In recent developments, the EU Parliament has lifted the bloc’s emission reduction ambitions to 55 per cent below the 2005 level (Australia’s remain at 26-28 per cent)….