Methane Clown Posse

Show notes

• Australia is very much still on fire.
• …as is the Bridget McKenzie scandal. Some nice color-coded spreadsheets leaked.
• an hour after we wrapped recoding, Bridget McKenzie resigned from the front bench (but still keeps her seat).
• Leigh Sales from ABC’s 7:30 Report empty-chair interviewed McKenzie. Thanks for listening to the show, Leigh!
• Kristina Keneally is running to the right of the Liberal party by complaining about “airplane people”. She’s been doing it for a while.
• Australia is closing it’s borders to anyone from China (except for citizens and residents), including thousands of students returning for university.

• Scott Morrison speaks at the press club
• BTW, the press club is sponsored by Westpac
• Morrison is forcing New South Wales to use more gas.
• Australia is the world’s biggest exporter of gas
• … but we also import gas.
• We make a pittance from taxes on gas. Qatar makes $26 billion in gas income. Australia makes $600 million. The oil and gas companies are making off with the rest.
• Corruption drives climate change. We’ve known about this stuff a long time, and it’s been covered up.
• Angus Taylor hates wind farms, and is the minister in charge of all this mess.
• The government is also trying to tie funding for renewables to new gas plants in Victoria.
• Gas is bad for the environment too. It looks clean, but leakage in production and transport means it is as bad as coal.
• Like clean coal, gas is a dead end. Just build renewables.

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• Move your superannuation and bank to a fund that doesn’t support extractive industries
• Change your electricity provider and buy renewable energy
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