Sentences with phrase «greenhouse mafia»

The self - described «greenhouse mafia» of fossil fuel lobbyists was jubilant, and wrote to the Prime Minister congratulating the government on «the excellent outcome at Kyoto».

The secret hope that maybe she was just being clever — making sure she said nothing that would forewarn the greenhouse mafia so she could strike deeply when the time came to act — began to look like wishful thinking.

Obsessed with the economy and frightened of the greenhouse mafia, the Government agreed.

The greenhouse mafia is not the only factor in the Government's back - tracking.

He chairs an advisory board for APPEA, representing gas and oil companies, in which role he almost qualifies as a member of the greenhouse mafia.

In 2009 the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association, the oil and gas lobby group, awarded Mitchell the JN Pierce Award for Media Excellence «for leading the newspaper's coverage of climate change policy», which proves that the greenhouse mafia does have a sense of humour.

If he doesn't get his way in a committee stacked with greenhouse mafia types, what would he do?

Unsurprisingly, other industry groups that would win from policies to reduce greenhouse gases − such as the insurance industry, the gas industry and the tourism council − have been unwilling to take on the greenhouse mafia and its ruthless methods.

The members of the greenhouse mafia claim to be more familiar with greenhouse policy than the Government, because they are the ones who wrote it.

The greenhouse mafia has direct access to the Prime Minister.

Yet the research reveals that the greenhouse mafia has «unrivalled access» to internal government processes.

Dr Pearse suggests that the publication of the Howard Government's energy white paper in 2004 was the «pièce de résistance for Australia's greenhouse mafia» because it was an almost complete endorsement of the «mob's» agenda.

It emerges that climate change policy in Canberra has for years been determined by a small group of lobbyists who happily describe themselves as the «greenhouse mafia».

As a result of the closeness of the personal and political connections within the network, Dr Pearse concluded that the greenhouse mafia is probably the most potent lobbying alliance in Australia.

The Howard Government has allowed the greenhouse mafia extraordinary influence over Australia's stance on climate change.

This is when the inside knowledge and connections of the greenhouse mafia really make a difference, and when the democratic process is trashed.

The greenhouse mafia of industry lobbyists have not, of course, been the only people preventing Australia from taking climate change seriously and, for the historical record, the main culprits need to be outed.

The former head of APPEA, Jones was at the heart of the greenhouse mafia in Canberra.

Not exact matches

Only the Warmist mafia has a greenhouse with fishnet as a roof.

If early intervention failed and a proposal to tackle greenhouse gas emissions got to Cabinet − such as occasionally happened when Robert Hill thought he could get something up − the mafia would turn to its closest friends in Cabinet to knock it off.