Category Archives: Carbon offsets

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Report: Australian carbon offset business dying; Large emitters no longer interested

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 1 Comment

“A carbon offset company says business interest halted at least a year ago because of uncertainty over the Coalition’s plans, and now Europe’s price fall is more bad news.” Continue reading →

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Entergy buys carbon credits for Super Bowl; Maybe the money should have been spent making sure the power was reliable

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Steve Milloy | 3 Comments

“Approximately 4,500 megawatts of power will be needed, resulting in some 3.8 million pounds of CO2. These emissions will be offset by the carbon credits provided by Entergy… Fans can select how much of their travel they want to offset (starting at $5) and choose the carbon-offset project from which they would like to purchase credits. Entergy is matching fan offset purchases dollar-for-dollar… In all, Entergy estimates that the company’s offset purchases related to the Super Bowl will result in more than 26 million pounds of avoided greenhouse gas emissions. ‘Hosting the Super Bowl in the city where Entergy is headquartered is exciting,’ said Riddlebarger. ‘Through Geaux Green, we’re assuring the benefits of the big game are far-reaching and everlasting’.”

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International airline carbon emissions tax delayed

Posted on November 13, 2012 by sandyjfs | 1 Comment

Today, the European Union institutes a one-year delay in its cap-and-trade rule that would have required all airlines traveling to and from Europe to buy permits for the amount of greenhouse gases emitted during the flight. Airlines would be forced to pay a fine of about $125 for every excess ton of carbon emissions they failed to offset by purchasing permits. This EU rule was part of its broader Emissions Trading System that took effect at this beginning of this year. The payment deadline, now postponed, was scheduled to begin April 30, 2013. Continue reading →

No early Australian link to Californian carbon market

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

No late one either. Continue reading →

Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon offsets, Carbon trading

Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea

EU Carbon Permits Are Second-Fastest Rising Commodity

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment

Let’s see, worthless plus 10% is … Continue reading →

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Poor seek to cut CDM access at UN climate talks

Posted on September 4, 2012 by Editor | 2 Comments

More than 130 of the world’s poorest nations have sought to pressure richer countries to agree new legally-binding goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions by threatening to deny them access to cheap U.N. carbon credits, potentially making it more expensive for them to meet domestic emission goals. Continue reading →

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Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon offsets, Carbon trading, Climate Change, IPCC

Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, climate fraud, really stupid idea, redistributing your wealth

Designers Set Sail, Turning to Wind to Help Power Cargo Ships

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

“If the world’s shipping fleet were a country, it would be the world’s sixth leading emitter of greenhouse gases. To reduce those emissions — and, not incidentally, to conserve expensive fossil fuels — cargo ship designers are now turning to the oldest source of power there is: the wind.“

Does whale oil attract carbon credits or certified emission reduction certificates when used for lighting? Continue reading →

Posted in Clean energy, Carbon offsets, Cap & Tax, Carbon trading

Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, international trade, shipping

Pierre Gosselin: Number Of German Flyers Who Volunteer to Offset CO2 From Flights Is “Too Small To Be Measurable”!

Posted on August 27, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

I often have to listen to German greenies lecture the rest of the world about “responsible behavior” and “climate protection”. But when they are asked to make a contribution, they say no. Continue reading →

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Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, climate fraud, hot air scam

California Cities: Calling Trees “Urban Forests” to Extract New Taxes

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Editor | 4 Comments

News from California that city governments are preparing to use the state’s cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions reduction law, passed in 2006, to raise revenue – for doing what they’ve been doing for years. Continue reading →

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Creditors line up as recycled CER seller goes bust

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment

Total Global Steel has been forced into liquidation by creditors after a UK court ruled in May that the London-based trading house must pay Deutsche Bank 4.2 million euros ($5.1 million) in damages for selling the German bank recycled carbon credits. Continue reading →

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Profits on Carbon Credits Drive Output of a Harmful Gas

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment

“When the United Nations wanted to help slow climate change, it established what seemed a sensible system.“

Sensible to whom, one might wonder. They are talking about a scam far worse than Montreal, the mean the Kyoto Protocol. Continue reading →

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Tagged carbon scam, climate fraud, climate hysteria, really stupid idea

Aus: Labor plan to replace carbon floor price

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Editor | 2 Comments

The federal government is considering scrapping the $15 minimum price on carbon after 2015 and restricting access to much cheaper international carbon credits. Continue reading →

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Posted in Baseload Energy, Cap & Tax, Carbon offsets, Carbon trading

Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, really stupid idea

Andrew Bolt: Billions of your dollars, shipped to foreign green schemes

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

Julia Gillard’s plan is to send up to $3.5 billion a year overseas by 2020 to simply buy carbon offsets from foreigners instead of making cuts at home. In fact, of her 160 million tonnes a year target of emissions cuts, 100 million will be bought from the likes of China, India and Nigeria in a market that doesn’t actually exist. Continue reading →

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Numbers offer more proof Carbon Trust should be shuttered

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Editor | Leave a comment

In his letter to the minister of finance, Chris Trumpy, the chairman of the board of the Pacific Carbon Trust, paints a rosy picture of a well-run Crown corporation that is fiscally solvent and effectively delivering an important public benefit. Continue reading →

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South Korea Seeking CO2 Cuts At Home Before Allowing Offsets

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

South Korea is asking its largest emitters to make cuts at home before giving them credit for overseas spending to reduce greenhouse gases. Continue reading →

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Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, climate hysteria, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia, government cash grab, really stupid idea, weather superstition

Coming To a Field Near You: Nitrogen Reduction Credits

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Editor | 3 Comments

Attempting to further enmesh Big Ag in the climate scam: “You can soon earn credits for reduced fertilizer application if you prove it reduces nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, which are a potent greenhouse gas. That could be a big “if.”” Continue reading →

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Posted in Agriculture, Carbon offsets, Carbon trading

Tagged carbon scam, climate fraud, greenhouse gas emissions, hot air scam

World Bank Unit Winds Up Post-2012 Carbon Credit Fund

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Editor | 1 Comment

The World Bank Group’s International Finance Corp. will close its fund for investing in projects that generate emissions credits from 2013, after the first period of the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol ends. Continue reading →