From: Viv Forbes [forbes@carbon-sense.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 3:57 PM
To: Jack Venrick
Subject: New Energy Lobby Group Formed in Australia
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15 November 2018
Hundreds of Consumers, Business people and Scientists say:
“Get out of the Paris Agreement.”
“The Saltbush Club”
Skilled and Thinking Australians
concerned at the huge costs and unproven benefits
of the climate, energy and infrastructure policies
on both sides of Federal Parliament.
A new lobby group
comprising scientists, farmers, consumers, small business and big business is
urging both sides of Australian politics to put aside party interests and
global agendas to focus on what's best for Australian business, workers,
consumers and the environment.
The Saltbush Club calls for Australia to withdraw from the Paris Climate
Agreement and to cease financing or supporting the international bodies
promoting it.
It challenges the whole idea of a consensus on man-made global warming.
Jerry Ellis, retired chairman of BHP, and Founding
Chairman of the Saltbush Club says:
"It is clear that Australia’s push
to meet the Paris carbon dioxide emission targets is leading to higher
electricity prices and unreliable supply. We have lost the balance between
working for environmental outcomes and working for economic outcomes. These
things need to be balanced, and this balance is missing with the Paris
Agreement. The world would be a better placed with strong economies generating
money to spend on poverty, health, infrastructure and the environment."
Hugh Morgan, CEO of Western Mining 1990-2003 and a director of the Saltbush
Club agrees:
"People think the Paris Accord is
just about commitments to lower CO2. It is really about transferring wealth via
the UN to the so-called Less Developed Countries. It’s about advancing
centralised control of people’s lives on a global scale. This climate alarm
movement has got so far because of backing by Western millennials who have been
indoctrinated during their education. Enjoying living standards unprecedented
in world history, they have embraced alarmism as a new secular religion.”
Ellis and Morgan are supported by a large, skilled and experienced group of
other Australians calling themselves “The Saltbush Club”. The group was
organised by Viv Forbes (with a few helpers), from a country farm-house in
Queensland with no landline, no NBN and less than $3,000 in financial support.
Forbes says:
“The Saltbush Club has over 200 foundation members, plus a bigger group
of “silent” members. It will be a voice for those who are rarely heard in the
climate and energy debate - those consumers of electricity who are concerned
that the war on hydro-carbon energy has increased the costs and reduced the
reliability of electricity for industry and private consumers.
“It welcomes anyone with a similar view, regardless of their political
affiliations or leanings.
“We must reject the UN Agenda which is crippling western industry with
high-cost unreliable electricity in a futile attempt to control global
climate.”
“Our top priority is to have Australia withdraw from the Paris Climate
Agreement and to cease financing or supporting the international bodies
promoting it.”
Jo Nova (a well-read blogger and Saltbush Media Director) added:
“Who speaks for consumers? Our elected reps are supposed to, but few are
willing to speak up. There is a $1.5 trillion dollar global industry that wants
Australia to accept Paris, but no debate about the vested interests that stand
to profit while Australian consumers and businesses pay carbon taxes they have
voted against every time they had the chance.”
Viv Forbes
forbes@carbon-sense.com
Address (not for
publication)
1907 Ipswich-Boonah Road
Washpool Qld Australia 4306.
0409 2777 94
The Saltbush Club
Jerry Ellis Chairman ellisann3@gmail.com 02 9969
5115
Hugh Morgan hm@firstchar.com
Joanne Nova Media Director joanne@joannenova.com.au
Ian Plimer ianplimer@internode.on.net
Viv Forbes Executive Director vforbes@clexit.net 0409 2777 94
If
no answer try: 0409 2777 95
Please
do not publish our phone numbers.
Viv Forbes has a science degree and a long history in exploration, management,
writing and lecturing in the exploration, mining and grazing industries of
Northern Australia. He is currently self-employed with no ties to, interest in,
or contracts with any company except for a long-held share-holding in Stanmore
Coal which exports coking and some thermal coal to Asia.
For more information on the Saltbush Club see:
https://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saltbush-introduction.pdf
https://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saltbush-members.pdf
https://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saltbush-skills.pdf
https://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/saltbush-priorities.pdf
Other comments:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2018/09/ex-bhp-chief-scrap-paris-now/