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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:46 AM

Carbon Tax

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Name: Carbon Tax
First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Environment)
Carbon tax backer says its time has come
Reporting from Oxford, England - With the global climate change summit in Copenhagen just a few weeks away, gloom has settled in many quarters over the increasing likelihood that a robust international treaty to lower carbon emissions is out of reach, ... [Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago]
First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 2 Documents
IFA: Farmers cannot afford carbon tax
Farmers are telling the Finance Minister Brian Lenihan that they can't afford to pay the carbon tax to be introduced in next month's Budget.The IFA is meeting Mr Lenihan this evening to highlight what they say is a disastrous drop in income for the production ... [Ireland On-Line - 17 hours ago]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents
Federated Farmers u-turn on carbon tax
In a reversal of its earlier stance, Federated Farmers is now suggesting that a carbon tax might be the lesser of two evils, as a mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.Climate Change Minister Nick Smith says New Zealand needs to stick with an ... [Radio New Zealand - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
We have opted for a complex and painful ETS
AUSTRALIA’S great greenhouse contradiction has turned a simple market-based system for reducing carbon emissions into a confusion of backroom political deals pockmarked by exemptions and surrounded by a maze of high-cost regulation. The mutation ... [Current Account - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Exempt NT from emissions scheme, demands CLP (ABC)
Local industries should be exempt from the Federal Government's proposed emissions trading scheme, the Northern Territory Opposition's spokesman on business affairs says.Dave Tollner says the Territory's natural gas production is part of the solution ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Federated Farmers vows to fight on
Federated Farmers has vowed to continue the fight against the agricultural sector's inclusion in the Emissions Trading Scheme, with some members prepared to take the protest to the steps of Parliament, its national president said yesterday.In Wellington ... [Southland Times - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)
Dealing with America's fiscal hole
FOR years Americas fiscal problems had a surreal quality. No one disputed that an ageing population and health-care inflation could bust the budget, but that prospect was decades away and procrastination seemed painless. No longer. A giant hole has opened ... [The Economist - 11/19/2009]
First Reported 14 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Environment)
Why Can't Tom Friedman Find Cleantech?
Thomas Friedman, one of my favorite authors, had an editorial this week entitled, "America must lead in energy technology". As with most of his recent writings and speeches, it's targeted around the thesis of his Hot, Flat and Crowded book, which basically ... [Cleantech Blog - 14 hours ago]
First Reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 Documents
Irish Haulage Association Prepares to Go On Warpath
Fury at ‘Buck-Passing’ by Irish GovernmentIRELAND – The Irish Road Haulage Association (IRHA) has reacted angrily to what it says is ‘buck passing’ and ministers refusal to meet with their representatives to discuss a proposed carbon tax on fuel that ... [Handy Shipping Guide - 4 hours ago]
First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
Americans living in a fool’s paradise?
Tags: america, Big Macs, Black Death, Congress, energy technology, Felix KramerIf you follow the debate around the energy/climate bills working through Congress you will notice that the drill-baby-drill opponents of this legislation are now making two ... [Deccan Chronicle - 11/18/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents (in Environment)
The European emissions trading scheme is now a success
It was not the market that failed, but the policies that governed how it workedYour article is profoundly disheartening (, 5 November). Instead of adding political pressure to commit to emissions reduction targets, FoE criticises carbon markets and investors, ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/17/2009]
First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents
Some belated basking
From GatE:The Institute for Policy Integrity recently released results on their survey of economists on climate change. I was invited on the back on a 2005 JEEM article I think.I originally wrote a long post explaining why I would not participate because ... [Environmental Economics - 11/17/2009]

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"All of the states of Australia have been mining and extracting energy for more than 100 years without the impediment of a carbon tax" he said
Exempt NT from emissions scheme, demands CLP (ABC) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/20/2009]
...The CBO acknowledges this in a footnote: "The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap." The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill...
Cap-And-Trade "Three-Card Monte" Dead For 2009 [The Market Oracle - 11/19/2009]
Peter Sterling, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pavilion, commented, "Japan currently imports essentially all its energy. Once completed, this project would generate enough clean, renewable energy to replace up to five million barrels of oil imports per day at a more competitive cost than any other generating technology. Further benefits include lower future carbon tax payments and new local jobs for the design, fabrication and installation of new wind power technology and for operation and maintenance of the wind farms."
Pavilion Energy Resources Proposes Offshore Wind Energy Project for Japan [PR-USA.net - 11/17/2009]
...However, Vattenfall considers nuclear power investment in the UK to be an attractive long-term prospect. "In the short term there is no room for investment in the UK, at least not in the next couple of years. However, nuclear power is a very long term commitment and I wouldn't rule it out in the longer term" Josefsson told PEi...
Vattenfall's Josefsson: We have not ruled out UK nuclear investment [Power Engineering - 11/16/2009]

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Carbon tax backer says its time has come [Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago]
Carbon tax backer sees it as sensible, maybe in... [Los Angeles Times - 3 hours ago]
Irish Haulage Association Prepares to Go On War... [Handy Shipping Guide - 4 hours ago]
'Carbon tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitabl... [Los Angeles Times - 10 hours ago]
IFA: Farmers cannot afford carbon tax [Ireland On-Line - 17 hours ago]
IFA: Farmers cannot afford carbon tax [Eircom.net - 17 hours ago]
Exempt NT from emissions scheme, demands CLP (ABC) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/20/2009]
David Farrar: ETS a balancing act [National Business Review - 11/19/2009]
ETS a balancing act [National Business Review - 11/19/2009]
Federated Farmers u-turn on carbon tax [Radio New Zealand - 11/19/2009]
Federated Farmers vows to fight on [Southland Times - 11/19/2009]
Dealing with America's fiscal hole [The Economist - 11/19/2009]
Farmers do u-turn on carbon tax [New Zealand Herald - 11/19/2009]
America's fiscal deficit: Stemming the tide [The Economist - 11/19/2009]
How Carbon Markets Work in Europe [Sightline Daily - 11/19/2009]
FG want employers' PRSI cut by 20pc [Ireland Business World - 11/18/2009]
Theory on Green backing for NAMA. [Politics.ie - 11/18/2009]
Emissions goal mulled for first time [China Economic Net - 11/18/2009]
Americans living in a fool’s paradise? [Deccan Chronicle - 11/18/2009]
Opinion: Thomas L. Friedman: Why America must t... [San Jose Mercury News - 11/18/2009]
BJP to raise cane price issue in parliament Thu... [Topnews.in - 11/18/2009]
Do FG ever think things through? [Politics.ie - 11/18/2009]
Lenihan signals Budget plan to hit the lower paid [Irish Independent - 11/18/2009]
Nigeria: Aliero And the Limits of Imperial Powers [AllAfrica.com - 11/18/2009]
SA coal industry urged to develop emission miti... [Mining Weekly - 11/18/2009]
Tax cuts in FG budget proposals [Irish Times - 11/18/2009]
Budget must be a mix of spending cuts and reven... [Labour Ireland - 11/18/2009]
IRHA slams 'flawed carbon tax proposal' [Enviro Solutions - 11/17/2009]
On the outside looking in [Irish Construction.com - 11/17/2009]
JUICE: Republican Gubernatorial Hopefuls Lay Ou... [California Energy Circuit - 11/17/2009]
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Why Can't Tom Friedman Find Cleantech? [Cleantech Blog - 14 hours ago]
Thomas Friedman, one of my favorite authors, had an editorial this week entitled, "America must lead in energy technology". As with most of his recent writings ...
We have opted for a complex and painful ETS [Current Account - 11/20/2009]
AUSTRALIA’S great greenhouse contradiction has turned a simple market-based system for reducing carbon emissions into a confusion of backroom political deals pockmarked ...
Cap-And-Trade "Three-Card Monte" Dead... [The Market Oracle - 11/19/2009]
AM By: Mike_Shedlock Typically, one of the best thing Congress ever does is nothing. And so it is again with the Cap-And-Trade energy bill. Thankfully, . The U.S. ...
Cap-And-Trade "Three-Card Monte" Dead... [Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis - 11/19/2009]
Typically, one of the best thing Congress ever does is nothing. And so it is again with the Cap-And-Trade energy bill. Thankfully, Senate Climate Bill Delay Raises ...
Canada's Heartland - Political Peak Oil's First... [Treehugger - 11/18/2009]
Edward Burtynsky. Alberta Oil Sands # 6, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, 2007. Image credit:via Blogotariat.The concept of "political peak oil" has been floating ...
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Russia Open to No Nukes?! June 11, 2009 [Mefeedia Video Tag : medicine - 06/12/2009]
They tried to make the world forget his name - ... [Mefeedia Video Tag : physics - 05/08/2009]
Ep 102: Earth Hour [Mefeedia Video Tag : astronomy - 03/27/2009]
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