je.st
news
Tag: repeal
Carbon tax: Tony Abbott insists Labor will think again on repeal
2013-10-15 06:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Tony Abbott says he is sure public pressure will force the Labor party to repent of its support for the carbon tax and allow its repeal, but has not ruled out the possibility that companies will have to pay the tax until July 2015 if Labor sticks to its guns. Repeal legislation to be released by the government on Tuesday afternoon will be the first item of business when parliament resumes on 12 November. It seeks to abolish the tax in June, at the end of the financial year. Business is concerned...
Australia carbon tax: Abbott prepares repeal bill
2013-10-15 05:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has published draft legislation to repeal the country's carbon tax. The controversial tax, which was introduced under the previous Labor government, imposed a levy on the 300 biggest polluters. Mr Abbott, who said the tax cost jobs and forced energy prices up, said the repeal bill would be the first reviewed under the new parliament. Australia is the developed world's worst polluter per head of population. Mr Abbott said that the draft bill was "designed...
Tags: australia
bill
tax
carbon
Australia to repeal carbon tax
2013-10-05 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: Climate desk producer James West tells host Steve Curwood that much of the coal China burns comes from Australia. The new Prime Minister down under intends to repeal Australia's carbon tax, leaving many worried about the country's contribution to climate change. Transcript CURWOOD: The human impact on the climate is a global problem, yet the global solution will require many local actions. Consider the Asian Pacific. China is now the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, thanks to the...
Tags: australia
tax
carbon
repeal
Australia: World's largest carbon capture begins even as Abbott tax repeal looms
2013-09-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has pledged to repeal the country's carbon tax to boost economic competitiveness, so it is ironic that Australia is about to host the world's most ambitious project for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. Starting in 2014/15, Chevron will begin injecting 120 million tonnes of pressurised supercritical carbon dioxide 2.5 kilometres underground as part of its giant Gorgon LNG project. Raw gas from the Gorgon field contains about 14 per cent carbon...
Tags: australia
tax
largest
begins
Australia: Abbott government begins process to repeal carbon tax
2013-09-08 21:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Abbott government is already piling pressure on the Labor Party to "honour" the new government's mandate to repeal the carbon tax. Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott yesterday instructed his department to begin drawing up the legislation to dump the carbon pricing scheme and says federal parliament will resume in late October or early November to deal with it. "My emphasis will be on being purposeful, methodical, calm, and conscientious," he told Fairfax radio. "And the last thing I want...
Tags: process
government
australia
tax
Sites : [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] next »