“There is no healthy economy on a broken planet. Anyone who protects the climate also strengthens the location and the domestic economy. Anyone who plays one against the other will risk countless jobs and the future of our children,” criticizes the environmental spokesman for the Greens, Lukas Hammer, the future -proof location policy of Economic Minister Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer.
The black-red-pink federal government is negligent in both the speed and the implementation of the energy transition. Three laws were promised before the summer. Only the Electricity Economic Act is now under assessment, but has significant defects. “As a climate protection minister, Leonore Gewessler already presented a draft a year and a half ago, which was then blocked politically. Now we have lost a lot of time and are at the same place with a poorer draft,” says Hammer.
“We saw it at the budget, and we can also see it here: whoever protects the climate pays it under this federal government. Already half a million households produce with a separate PV system from their own roof. Minister Hattmannsdorfer wants to produce these people and everyone else who produce clean and cheap electricity for all of us, with a new criminal tax. Further: “The outstanding energy laws have been blocked for a long time, but are urgently necessary for more speed for expansion, generation, storage and, above all, transmission of clean electricity. But this is only possible together with the industry and certainly not at the expense of those people who actively participate in the energy transition.”
After the massive cuts in climate protection, the black-red-pink federal government is now also setting the false signals for the economy: “Companies that have invested in advance in environmental technologies and climate protection should now pay. Thinking of clinging, ”concludes Hammer.
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