Rio Tinto gets $2m from emissions reduction fund to switch to diesel

Australians have paid about $2m from the Morrison government’s emissions reduction fund, now rebadged as a “climate solutions” policy, to mining giant Rio Tinto for a diesel-fired power station at a mine in Arnhem Land.

Payments to Rio Tinto’s Gove Peninsula mine have prompted
 questions about the type of projects that are eligible under
the emissions reduction fund.

The multinational company qualified for climate funding to help pay for the fossil fuel plant at its Gove Peninsula bauxite mine despite the generator being commissioned before the fund opened.

It is one of several fossil fuel developments by large companies registered with the fund, which the then prime minister Tony Abbott introduced to pay farmers and businesses to cut greenhouse gases below what they otherwise would have been.

Read the story from The Guardian by Adam Morton - “Rio Tinto gets $2m from emissions reduction fund to switch to diesel.”

(Busted! The Scott Morrison “Climate Solutions Fund” is being used to actually worsen climate change while enriching the villains - Robert McLean)