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Carbon costs to apply to 100 Australian generators and 200 - 300 large manufacturing facilities: policy question: should small pollutors be exempt?

Should the the remaining 10 per cent be made exempt by lowering the emissions threshold?, asked the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper.

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Rise in water costs the price of the Australian coal economy, as climate change creates catastrophic cuts in stream flows

Climate change made costs of water significant. The cost of water in Melbourne was to double over the next five years.A desalination plant to supplement Perths water supply in 2006 cost $387 million.

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21 July 2008: new Australian Emission Trading Units rise to $20.00 in 10K lots

Australian Emission Trading Units (AETUs or AEUs) traded twice last Friday, initially at $19.75 then $20.00 both in lots of 10K.

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Week to 19 July 2008 Market Report: Victoria peak fuel use NEM week 29

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Week to 19 July 2008 Market Report: NSW peak fuel use NEM week 29

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The Rudd carbon plan has begun to look like the Murray Darling Basin; a muddle of obfuscated statements to disguise subsidies to States' mates

The Rudd government window of opportunity to deliver on its electoral promise had narrowed. The signs were not good; the lack of government response to the Garnaut review, the absence of innovation in the green paper, and the absence of enviromental advocacy, in its white paper suggested a a need for a higher level of planning and analytic ability.

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Australian policy-plan: no offsets for tree-trading in 2010; but rethink in 2013

Offsets do not increase national abatement, as the provision of credits into an emissions trading system allows additional emissions in the covered sector, said the 16 July 2008, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper.

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Australian government proposes to include forestry on an opt-in basis from 2010 emissions trading start, but will not use Kyoto rules

The Australian emissions trading policy draft showed Australia would not follow Kyoto forests rules, would write its own. This was probably a political expedient as as the Rudd government was in power, aided by marginal electorates, some with an economic dependence on State-allocated rights to fell and chip native timber.

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Hollow joke: Australia plans to exclude deforestation; after Howard era planners used it to fake meeting of Kyoto target

Under the Australian policy plan, anyone could in future cut trees and clear land and face no carbon liability. This was despite the actual liability created. Forest fires would not be accounted. This was a policy reversal as the Howard government had claimed Australia had met its Kyoto target, as it had stopped land clearing. However energy emission had risen sharply.

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Monday 21 July 2008: Service announcement: news updates were delayed and are now underway; summary and full text pdf publication broadcasts will take place at 2 pm. Normal 9 am service resumes Tuesday.

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Federal carbon policy plan bans forest and fire-reduction offsets, and will not account for WA, NT forest fires

The Federal Government would not set up an offset scheme for the agriculture sector.

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Not a big bang like the GST: only 1,000 firms face new Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme at firm 2010 start-date

The Federal Government estimated around 1,000 firms compulsorily covered by the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, based on a baseline for inclusion of 25,000 tonnes of carbon per year.

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