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Public relations fail, straight from the green wackos – updated
Even though it is Fathers’ Day in the land Down-Under and I have a father to fete and children with whom to celebrate I must just share some correspondence received, apparently sincerely*, from...
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Aus: Europeans have the last laugh on ETS
Whenever the Gillard government was told the bleeding obvious about the negative impact its carbon tax would have on our economic fortunes its response was defiant. Never mind that the carbon tax is...
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Aus: Rushed carbon permit auction to prop up budget
The federal government plans to bolster its sagging budget bottom line by a near tripling of the auction of carbon emissions permits in 2013-14. Draft changes released over the weekend, and designed to...
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Aus: Eurocrats laugh at our scheme all the way to bank
IT is easy to find ways to poke fun at the EU and the tendency of its Brussels-based bureaucrats to draft detailed directives on the contents of sausages, the shape of vegetables and many other aspects...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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EU Carbon Permits Are Second-Fastest Rising Commodity
Let’s see, worthless plus 10% is … European Union carbon was the second-fastest-rising commodity this month after northwest European naphtha. United Nations emission credits dropped in August, as their...
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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...
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Aus: Govt breached faith on power stations: Greens
The tinkerbells are always upset when reality intrudes. AUSTRALIAN Greens leader Christine Milne says the federal government was never really committed to closing down the nation’s dirtiest power...
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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. The United States, Australia,...
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No early Australian link to Californian carbon market
No late one either. After announcing this week it will link its future carbon market to the EU’s, Australia may look to California next as a potential emissions-trading partner, but the US state may be...
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Again with the carbon dioxide “pollution” meme
Australian polluters to save A$2.5 billion in CO2 costs: analyst Australia’s top polluters, from steel firms and coal miners to airlines, will save about A$2.5 billion over 5 years after a decision to...
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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...
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International airline carbon emissions tax delayed
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...
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California Cap-and-Trade auctions start tomorrow
California launches the second largest carbon market in the world when it will hold the first-ever cap and trade auction for climate change tomorrow at 10 am PST. California carbon market kick-started...
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EU Carbon Permits ‘Worthless’ Without Change of Rules, UBS Says
“With current rules ETS won’t work until 2045, thus carbon is worthless.” “Carbon-dioxide permits in the European Union emissions trading system, the world’s largest, are “worthless” without a change...
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Falling EU carbon price should inspire greater mitigation efforts
Except that emissions are increasing and EU carbon prices are low because the market is failing, not because it’s inexpensive to reduce emissions. Read more at NanoWerk.
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European carbon price ‘inching ever closer to zero’
“”Dramatic”, “enduring”, “meltdown” – the words used by leading analyst firm Thomson Reuters Point Carbon to describe the continued slump in global carbon prices could not be starker.” Read more at The...
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