By Xinhua,
Canberra : A Newspoll released on Monday showed that Australians want the government to invest profits from an emissions trading scheme (ETS) in renewable energy.
The poll, commissioned by Greenpeace Australia, found 84 percent of respondents didn’t want profits to be used to compensate the coal industry. And just 10 percent favored coal-fired power generators should be compensated under the scheme.
In a press statement, Greenpeace spokeswoman Trish Harrup called on the government to amend its proposed scheme.
“The federal government’s carbon pollution reduction scheme should be designed to do just that, not pay wealthy and polluting power companies to continue to pump carbon into the atmosphere,” the statement said.