Budget 2023’s clean investments don’t add up: Toby Heaps

Life is full of mysteries, and the federal budget for 2023 is one of them.

Contrary to what people might think, the federal budget tells us precious little about what the government is actually spending money on this year when it comes to clean economy incentives, or anything else for that matter.

After last year’s budget, I submitted a media request asking the Department of Finance and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change how much they were set to spend to address the climate crisis in 2022. The official response was a shoulder shrug. To find out what is actually going on, you have to sleuth through public accounts, which come out every December and tell you what was spent the previous year.