Dear Premier Baillieu,
Like most Victorians, I’m proud of our environment. I’m proud of our clean air and water, our beautiful National Parks, and the ecosystems and amazing destinations that set our state apart.
Yet since coming into power your government has taken a wrecking ball to our environment, taking our environment and our state backwards by decades. I’m appalled by this behaviour from my government, and I’m calling on you to do better.
Instead of expanding brown coal mining and slashing support for clean energy, you should be investing in clean renewable energy like wind and solar.
Instead of cutting forest protections and trampling the Murray River you should be protecting our special places and returning water to our rivers.
Instead of looking out for your big business mates, you should be supporting households and small businesses to be more energy and water efficient to reduce costs and the impact on our environment.
Please stand up for our environment and for all Victorians. After all, that’s the job of the Premier of Victoria.
Specifically - please stop logging in Victoria's native forests, including our water catchments.
Please scrap VicForests -the Victorian government should exit the native forest logging business that runs at a serious loss and destroys our native forests, including habitat of endangered species such as Leadbeaters Possum and the Long Footed Potoroo.
Please reverse your regressive legislation that is blocking wind farm development and favouring further investment in polluting fossil fuel power.
Please re-instate a feed in tariff that recognises the true value of solar power and renewable energy.
Please allocated $50m for cycling infrastructure across Victoria, and develop a plan and program to implement it.
Sincerely,
Peter Campbell
External links
- Help stop the relentless and systematic destruction of our environment, Email campaign, Environment Victoria
- Emperor's new policy, The Age, 19 Dec 2012
