Townsville Bureau
It’s difficult to watch as the government is observing the sugar industry’s demise while refusing to lift a finger on a biofuel mandate, a costless measure that would give the whole industry new life. The Leader of the KAP and state Member for Traeger Robbie Katter has said.
The government announced support for a waste processing plant with ‘future phases create bio methanol and Sustainable Aviation Fuel’ with the headline ‘home-grown biofuels’.
“The amount of spin they’re having to use to make it look like they’re doing anything on fuel security would make Shane Warne proud,” Mr Katter said.
“It’s verging on cruel that while an ethanol mandate would give growers more markets, the government is running around saying ‘look over here, we’re spending money on something that might produce bio-fuels, one day’.
“When the millers and the growers are singing from the same song sheet begging for a mandate to support the besieged industry, you just can’t argue – but this government is!” The KAP leader said.
Australia produces 175 million litres of ethanol each year, but the facilities that are currently operating have at least 360 million litres of capacity. In 2024 83.6 million litres of ethanol.
“We can more than double our ethanol production overnight – not on distant horizon on a whim and a prayer, like the government seem to be focussed on.
“It just simply doesn’t make sense.
“It must be an awkward party room when you have coastal government backbenchers lauding the plight of the sugar industry and the need for fuel security, but their own government is letting the industry crumble.
“In fact, in Mossman they simply said the ‘too bad, so sad approach’ and threw money at the defunct cane industry there and hoped the problem is going to go away.
“You can’t keep pretending in media grabs and press releases that you’re doing something while industries close around you,
“The government have an important choice to make – do they support a mandate and rejuvenate the industry the Premier grew up in, or do they get the Treasurer ready to throw buckets of money at the whole cane industry.
“It’s a pretty simple equation, and headlines don’t cut, there needs to be real decisions made, and made now,” Mr Katter said.
““It just simply doesn’t make sense. ”
Yes it does, they are totally corrupt, the fiction is that they are representing you, it’s the same with the word “serve”, most of the time they serve you by sending you an invoice.
How about that $50 million the federal govt gave to Swissy’s Glencore to pump CO2 underground. CO2 which is much needed by trees etc to grow. The insane Greens Party and Movement cannot get their head around this. They are manipulated by their evil spiritual leader Sarah Hanson Young ( WEF YGL ) and are too brainwashed to think. But will Swisy’s Glencore really be so dumb as to waste $50 million of free money trying to pump CO2 underground. Perhaps not. Perhaps they will redistribute most of it amongst themselves in the form of bonuses.
Who knows, perhaps Elbow Ellery-Ellery will get a little kickback out of it too.
As with the soon-to-be Tasmanian pine plantation it is obvious that Australian governments do not, for one second, have the best interests of Australians at heart-if they actually have a beating heart in them.
I posted my economic genocide video on the Tassie article too:
https://www.brighteon.com/a03cae19-d20a-40d8-86ef-bc9eed3a38df
And do not think that I was too far wrong in anything I said.
If Tully sugar mill is still owned by foreigners the government may not be willing to pay them to produce ethanol
Congratulations.!! Finding a spelling error certainly changes the entire problematic landscape under comment & discussion.
It sounds unconstitutional, as Politicians are elected to serve the citizens of our nation. However, politicians and policy makers are being influenced by foreign powers who lobby politicians, embed themselves in the legislative process, and more.
Who is LNP Premier David Ceisafulli – maybe you need to learn to spell before posting comments!