The federal government will have betrayed its election promise to support farmers if it considers signing up to the Biden administration’s global pledge to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent, opposition leader Peter Dutton has said.
This follows comments from Agricultural Minister Murray Watt on ABC Radio on Oct. 13 that the federal government was “consulting with farm groups and individual farmers” about what the impacts would be of signing up for the pledge.
Speaking on the John Laws Morning Show on 2SM Radio on Oct. 14, Dutton said that the federal government considering the pledge was a shocking day for farmers.
“We’ve had since 1991 one of the biggest reductions in methane emissions in the world, more than the United States and other comparable countries. If we’re saying to farmers that we need you to cull your stock or to reduce your numbers to make your farm unviable, then I think that is a shocking day for farmers and for our country,” Dutton said….