Censorship alert
The World Today yesterday ran a story today about the CSIRO blocking a paper that had been accepted for publication by the journal New Political Economy after being internationally peer-reviewed. The had been submitted by Dr Clive Spash, a CSIRO [...]
REC Market inundated with consumer credits
Today’s Fin led with the news that the upturn in consumer spending has put pressure on the market in RECs, whose price is a kind of scoreboard for the renewable industry cage match initiated under the Howard Government. Rudd’s reforms, [...]
"It's not like we're battling it" Part I – EITEs
So Woodside, Rio and Boral have responded to the Australian Conservation Foundation and Australian Climate Justice Program complaint to the ACCC about the yawning gap between the shrillness of public emoting and disclosures to the investment community, which increased even [...]
Carbon Trust – has the government earned it?
One of the more interesting parts of the CPRS announcement was a collection of measures designed to address one of the louder criticisms from the various green groups (and notably by dk.au, I personally think it’s a peripheral issue). In [...]
Loy Yang Power buys carbon offsets
Here’s an interesting sign of things to come. Loy Yang Power has bought 100 000 Certified Emissions Reductions in a pre-emptive strike on regulation of the electricity market under the CPRS. Two points worth making: this is a drop in [...]
WTF is a CPRS?
Jane* doesn’t understand emissions trading. I’m bored by it. Snooze. That was a journalist friend of mine updating her status on Facebook yesterday. Seems like she’s not alone. Polling by Mobium released today revealed that: · One-third (35%) of those [...]
Sorting out soil carbon
Last week at the ABARE conference Tony Burke Federal Minister for Agriculture announced two new research initiatives. The Soil Carbon Research Program will be a $20 million project to look at changes in carbon in soil, how different climates effect [...]
CPRS draft legislation out
The draft of the CPRS legislation has been released, for your reading pleasure. As I understand it, the draft legislation pretty much exactly mirrors the White Paper, with all its often-discussed flaws. As to what happens now, today’s Crikey email [...]
Essential Report – ETS Edition
Possum has the goods on Sunday Monday’s Essential Report which had Labor unchanged at 52/32 for a 2PP of 62/38. There’s also a special question for the ETS Thinking about the Government’s proposed emissions trading scheme (called the carbon pollution [...]
Quibbling at the margins of the CPRS
Of all the supposed flaws in the proposed CPRS, the one that seems to have gained the most traction is the concern that, as Jeremy Sear puts it “the more you sacrifice at home – the more some corporate polluter [...]
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