If you’ve been following local media reports from last week, the Brimbank City Council has conceded to a buy-up scheme for residents. There was of course a great deal of lobbying from the current sitting Green Councillor, Geraldine Brooks; building on the work started by former Greens Councillor, Miles Dymott.
The current scheme being pursued by the Council is very commendable and a major step in the right direction. However, while this is positive, the Council’s own emissions remain unaccounted or off-set. There is still no single recycling policy instituted across the Council’s business units. The discrepancies of just this one policy area makes such schemes seem somewhat meaningless. (Why would people do use it if the Council doesn’t) In addition the Council is yet to consider other policy areas like using the empty space on buildings for solar energy panels; along with incorporating energy efficiencies into building maintenance.
BrimbankCAN will continue to lobby the Council to do more to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions, and support residents, ratepayers and businesses to reduce energy consumption.
