BCCAN has produced a 3-fold pamphlet explaining some of the benefits of the Renewable Energy Target.

Please download, print and distribute in the Orange/Bathurst region.

As per the front of the pamphlet:

The RET (Renewable Energy Target)

  1. does NOT cost taxpayers anything!1,2

    yet because of it the solar industry now

  2. in 2012 employed more Australians than coal product, oil & gas extraction COMBINED3

    And that the Abbott Government’s OWN modelling shows that

  3. keeping the RET will LOWER electricity prices 4

    and that according to the Clean Energy Council

  4. of all the RET Review submissions 99.5% favoured keeping or increasing the RET! 5

So why on Earth would anyone want to get rid of it?

 

Read the full pamphlet, including how removing the RET will help accelerate the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef.

For those outside the Bathurst/Orange region, please download and edit the source file, produced with the freely available Scribus Desk Top Publishing (DTP) program,6

and export directly to pdf for printing and distributing.