Let me see if I get this right: Combet is giving $1.2 B to SUBSIDISE technologies that would not be viable otherwise.
Then contemplate the cost to food production if the price of corn soars as a direct result of these subsidies!
All under the asinine aegis of the government's many 'clean energy programmes: and we have not even got anywhere near the Green's pressie: $10B to be wasted!
OR THE SCORES OF IDIOTIC SOLAR, ETC. SCHEEMES THAT ARE BEING FUNDED!
It will not take long for the real costs to be tallied: but they will loose government by then. It will become Abbot's problem - so they do not care: nothing makes this mob think of even the foreseable consequences!!
LA LA LAND!!
Geoff Seidner
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THE HON GREG COMBET
AM MP
Minister for
Climate Change and Energy Efficiency
Minister for
Industry and Innovation
MEDIA RELEASE
GC 90/12
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17 May
2012
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MELBOURNE manufacturer
wrapped with bioplastic
A manufacturer producing bioplastic packaging from corn
starch for some of Australia’s biggest retailers will increase its output by 400
per cent, following the expansion of its manufacturing facility.
The Minister for Industry and Innovation, Greg Combet, opened
Plantic Technologies Ltd’s expanded Altona site today and congratulated the
company on the extensive upgrades aimed improving efficiency and productivity.
“Plantic ticks many of the boxes for the future of clever
manufacturing in Australia and demonstrates how collaboration between research
and industry can pay off,” Mr Combet said.
“They have taken Australian research from the Cooperative
Research Centre for International Food Manufacture and Packaging Science and
used it to develop commercially attractive packaging products, create local jobs
and export internationally.”
Plantic Technologies has produced plastics from organic
materials since the early 2000s. The bio-degradable products are derived from a
natural, renewable crop – corn – cutting the use of emissions intensive fossil
fuels.
“Bioplastic uses half the energy of normal plastic
production, drastically cutting the carbon pollution associated with plastic
production. Other manufacturers can access financial assistance under the
Gillard Government’s Clean Energy Future package to follow in Plantic’s
footsteps,” Mr Combet said.
The $1.2 billion Clean Technology Programs offer grants to
invest in energy efficient capital equipment and new low pollution technologies,
processes and products.
Federal Member for Gellibrand, Nicola Roxon MP, said
Plantic’s cutting-edge packaging products are manufactured locally in Altona and
supplied to Coles, Haighs and international retailers Marks &
Spencer.
“Plantic’s expansion of their production facility
demonstrates a strong commitment to local jobs of the future as they meet
growing international demand for innovative and cleaner plastics,” said Ms
Roxon.
Media contact: Mark Davis, Gia
Hayne 02 6277 7920
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