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How much will polluters pay under the Direct Action plan?

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, August 27, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 
Climate Spectator's Tristan Edis (27/8/13) reports on estimates by the ALP's Mark Butler of the penalties that some larger companies might pay under the Liberals' Direct Action plan, based on emissions figures from the last four years:

Labor’s Climate Change Minister Mark Butler has released data illustrating how a large number of companies are likely to be paying penalties under the Coalition’s Direct Action scheme.  These companies include Origin Energy, Rio Tinto, BHP, OneSteel, Qantas,...


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Coalition's $4b - $15b climate action black hole

Posted by Vote Climate on Thursday, August 15, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 

A new report by the Climate Institute finds that emissions will increase not decrease under the Coalition's Direct Action policy and that costs would blow out by between $4b and $15b.

From Climate Institute press release:
The Coalition’s climate policy will see Australia’s emissions increase rather than decrease, exposing the Budget, our nation’s carbon competitiveness and its national climate interest.

These are conclusions from the most detailed independent assessment to date of the Co...
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Coalition's soil carbon plan 'unviable', study finds

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 


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Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 
A University of Melbourne survey of hundreds of Australian studies going back three decades found that using the country's soils to offset a significant proportion of national greenhouse gases “is technically limited and economically unviable at the present time”...

At the current carbon price – $24.15 per tonne – farmers would stand to lose at least $12 per tonne for carbon farming under normal soil conditions, the researchers found. The shortfall under the government's plan would be ...

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Cory Bernardi on Q and A raises concerns

Posted by Vote Climate on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 
Tristan Edis from Business Spectator asks whether Greg Hunt or Cory Bernardi is in charge of Coalition climate policy.

"In trying to work out exactly how the Coalition’s Carbon Emission Reduction Fund (ERF) might work, you can’t help but get a little confused by the contradictory statements made about the policy from different members of the Coalition.

Just as shadow climate change minister Greg Hunt starts to reassure you, someone else from the Coalition makes a statement that makes yo...


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Liberal MPs want rethink on Coalition's climate change plan

Posted by Vote Climate on Saturday, May 11, 2013, In : Direct Action Plan 
Two Liberal MPs want Tony Abbott to review or consider abandoning parts of his $3.2 billion plan to combat climate change in light of ''dire economic circumstances''.

Mal Washer and Dennis Jensen made the comments about the Coalition's Direct Action plan in the same week MPs broke ranks to publicly criticise Mr Abbott's paid parental leave scheme as economically irresponsible.
Western Australian MP Mal Washer said: ''If we are not going to get a big environmental bang for our buck then we ought...
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