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Energy. It’s NOT JUST what you dig out of the ground?

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dk.au
10 months, 4 weeks ago
in Activism, Climate change, Energy, Environment, Policy and Technology
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LP Reports, Policy makers listen! By way of a follow up to this post, I attended an ‘Energy White Paper Consultation’ workshop and can report that the Dept of RET facilitator stated that “the composition of the High Level Consultative Committee is a mistake!” They actually intended to have some token renewable energy representatives to lend an air of legitimacy to the whole exercise. Unfortunately, when said CEO realised what they were getting themselves into, they pulled out quick smart, leaving the poor RET exposed. Continue reading ‘Energy. It’s NOT JUST what you dig out of the ground?’

Energy. It’s what you dig out of the ground.

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dk.au
11 months, 3 weeks ago
in Climate change, Energy, Environment and Howardia
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Is there anything more alarmingly delightful than the creaking gears of history as the dialectic of Enlightenment lurches forth?? For all the gnashing of teeth and angry bashing of keyboards about K-Rudd’s 100% pathetic climate target, the real politics – the subpolitics of experts, bureaucrats and negotiators – continues under the public radar. Few (ie. everyone in the MSM except Bernard Keane) seem to have noticed that the government Marn is going to release a new Energy White Paper at the end of the year. To that end, they’ve published a “strategic directions paper” that doesn’t even bother with any pretense of deliberative input into what is essentially a private taxation regime for the Greenhouse mafia. The whole process is so completely stacked against any outcome commensurate with the challenge of climate change and economic common sense as to be essentially laughable. Continue reading ‘Energy. It’s what you dig out of the ground.’

Emissions trading and rent seeking: round two

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Mark
1 year, 6 months ago
in Climate change, Energy, Environment, Howardia and Markets
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The Fin Review reported yesterday that a host of resource company execs are descending on Canberra on Friday for a pow wow with Martin Ferguson. Initially this meeting was being presented as a way of circumventing the BCA, who released a doom and gloom laden report last week basically threatening a capital strike. But it’s now clear that it’s nothing of the sort, as Marn’s department have also sent the BCA an invite. Industry sources expressed pleasure at Ferguson’s involvement, telling the Fin that they found him easier to deal with and more amenable to their views than Climate Change Minister Penny Wong. Hardly surprising…

Further reports today (as well as Stephen Mayne’s piece in Crikey) reinforce what was being said yesterday – that the polluters and the “skeptics” are making the running on the business response to the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper. What looks like being the outcome is, in my view, a default back to the Howard position. Continue reading ‘Emissions trading and rent seeking: round two’