Oh Happy Day! Simon Corbell has announced that the ACT now has ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets legislated.
We don’t have any plan at all legislated how to reach it. Or penalites in the event of failure.
But we are going to have councils and reports and we can all feel good about it until 2013 when we’ve allowed our emissions to peak (safely after the next ACT election).
And surely that’s the important thing?
UPDATE: The Liberal’s Zed Seselja has been asking who’s going to be paying the bill for this. Apparently Simon Corbell says that is:
a level of specificity not required
FURTHER UPDATE: The Greens however are celebrating what they see as the setting of a gold standard,