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April 19th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has underlined the coalition’s green credentials, saying its plans for a cleaner environment are consistent with its goals of creating a stronger national economy.
“We’re all environmentalists now,” Mr Abbott will say in a landmark speech to business in Brisbane on Friday.
However, the challenge was to support “smart” ways to protect the environment without “killing the economy”.
Mr Abbott will restate his opposition to federal Labor’s carbon tax on the nation’s top 500 polluters, saying it will not actually reduce emissions.
“It’s a kind of reverse tariff that not only penalises Australian jobs … but penalises clean Australian enterprises while giving a competitive advantage to dirty overseas ones,” he will say.
A coalition government would support a one-stop shop for environmental approvals.
It will adopt business recommendations discussed at the Council of Australian Governments meeting last week to give the responsibility for approvals to states and territories.
This would include most approvals under commonwealth laws, except for major projects where the states decide they want the commonwealth to be the approver.
Mr Abbott will also restate the coalition’s commitment to establishing a 15,000-strong “Green Army”, a policy it took to the 2010 election.
His speech attacks Labor’s focus on climate change, saying it has driven programs that were badly thought out and delivered.
“It’s also led to the neglect of other environmental issues and the running down of other programs that could make at least as much contribution to a cleaner, greener future for Australia,” he will say.
He made a similar charge in 2010 when he first launched the Green Army policy.
Mr Abbott also intends to decry the state of public debate on the environment, saying it is not right to assume generating wealth is incompatible with preserving the environment.
“There’s no doubt that economic returns aren’t always worth their long-term environmental costs,” he’ll say.
But he says wealthier countries are better positioned to judge money-making opportunities against their environmental standards.
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