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Landfills pressure Australia government allow U.N. carbon credits: paper
2014-05-15 09:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Australian landfills, set to make total windfall profits of up to A$200 million ($187 million), if the country's carbon tax is repealed have proposed using some of the revenue to buy millions of U.N.-issued carbon credits, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday. Landfills have for the past two years been charging customers upfront to pay for future carbon emissions under the previous Labor government's carbon pricing scheme. But if the Liberal government, in office since September, succeeds...
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