THE carbon tax is making Australia more, not less, dependent on the highly polluting brown-coal electricity generators. Billion-dollar subsidies have allowed the Victorian operations to force cleaner base-load power stations out of the market. Continue reading
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Enviro groups say brown-coal carbon tax compo keeps us dirty
Aus: Brown profits and Green fury from carbon tax plan
THE Orwellian name of the Gillard government’s carbon tax policy – Clean Energy Future – makes its aim of shifting electricity generation from the dirtiest power stations to the cleanest quite plain. Consumers are entitled to feel somewhat mystified that brown-coal generation – the highest carbon polluter – is largely unaffected by carbon emissions policy. Continue reading
Stephen Stromberg: Does President Obama really care about global warming?
Environmentalists gathered in Charlotte, N.C. to watch Obama’s second nominating convention can agree that the president and his party are a lot better than the Republicans. Continue reading
Aus: Billions in carbon compensation pits brown coal against black
THE nation’s dirtiest brown-coal power stations face a savage backlash from less-polluting coal facilities in NSW and Queensland, which are demanding that a $5.5 billion compensation package for the carbon price be radically revised after Labor’s backflips on key planks of the carbon policy. Continue reading
Posted in Baseload Energy, Cap & Tax, Coal
Tagged anti coal, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Andrew Bolt: Waking too slowly from our green daze
How is business meant to plan investments, when the Gillard Government changes its mind so abruptly on taxes and mad multi-billion schemes? Dennis Shanahan:
The decision to end the negotiations to buy and close down Australia’s “dirtiest” brown-coal power plants is not just a shift in policy that might ultimately save the budget billions; it is another shift in the goalposts that sends the wrong signals to industry and investors. Continue reading
Carbon Tax could raise $1.5 Trillion for the US government. No wonder politicians drool over dire predictions.
Why do we need a carbon tax? A study by John Reilly candidly explains why this is not and has never been about the environment. Continue reading
Again with the carbon dioxide “pollution” meme
Australian polluters to save A$2.5 billion in CO2 costs: analyst Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, really stupid idea
Aus: Greg Combet defends payouts to dirty power stations
CLIMATE Change Minister Greg Combet has defended the level of compensation to Australia’s dirtiest coal generators amid claims the subsidy weakens the government’s ability to buy out high-polluting plants. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, really stupid idea
Aus: Carbon tax leaves big polluters better off
When they talk about “big polluters” they actually mean those returning previously lost carbon to the biosphere – apparently that’s a terrible thing, liberating an essential trace gas in short supply. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax
Tagged anti coal, carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, co2 emissions, dioxycarbophobia
No early Australian link to Californian carbon market
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
Obama’s 2nd-term agenda: Global warming, immigration, taxes
President Barack Obama says his Republican challenger has the “wrong vision” for the country. So what is his? Continue reading
Carbon trading market research boosted
China is researching the foundation of a national carbon-trading market before linking with other countries’ carbon trading schemes, said a top climate change official. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading, China
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Aus: Govt breached faith on power stations: Greens
The tinkerbells are always upset when reality intrudes. Continue reading
Aus: Carbon compo for brown coal a bigger waste than BER and pink batts
On Australia’s Green/Left policy train wreck:
“WHILE last week’s backflip by the government on the removal of the carbon pricing floor was broadly welcomed by those facing the prospect of paying the world’s highest carbon price, this most recent change in policy direction lays the foundations for more problems down the line.” Continue reading
Poor seek to cut CDM access at UN climate talks
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
California Ramps up Policy That’s Taboo on Campaign Trail
Funny how carbon scammers are keen to talk up Australia’s doomed tax and catastrophic linkage to the EU suicide pact. Kind of like someone holding a gun pressed to their temple and yelling “Stop laughing! You’re next!” Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading
Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, climate fraud, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Aus: Labor momentum stalls as support for Greens hits three-year low
Actually the Socialist Labor Party didn’t really have any momentum, just one lone rogue poll on which the left pinned its hopes. Composite post on contemporary Australian politics and why we say the “carbon tax” is toast. Continue reading
Uh-oh. Downturn in Aus: $100bn mining projects threatened
Who’s going to plug the yawning chasm in the green/Left government’s budget now? There are no “mining super-profits” to tax and the carbon tax is imploding before it even gets going. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Development, Economics, Mining
Tagged anti development, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Tim Wilson: EU Carbon Link Just More Hot Air
ANY business that buys cheap European emissions permits now may find them worthless by the end of the year. Linking emissions trading schemes isn’t as easy as the Gillard government makes it out to be. Continue reading
Posted in Cap & Tax, Carbon trading
Tagged carbon price, carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
Aus: Did everyone miss it? Combet brags that Labor Party doesn’t care what Australian voters want
The line that everyone seems to have missed (or become numbingly inured to) is one where Combet claims that Australians won’t be able to get rid of the carbon price even if they want to:
“(Greg Combet) said the linkage of the schemes would make it more difficult for Mr Abbott to axe the carbon price if the Coalition were elected.” [Source: The Australian]
Posted in Cap & Tax
Tagged carbon scam, carbon tax, government cash grab, hot air scam, really stupid idea
