ACF / ACTU Green Jobs report - 40 pages of claims with no evidence

Having just heard another obsequious interview by Alison Carabine on ABC Radio National Breakfast about the ACF (Australian Conservation Foundation) and ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) report entitled “Green Gold Rush: How ambitious environmental policy can make Australia a leader in the global race for green jobs“, I thought I would download it [...]

The building opposition to Rudds ETS

What a great election it will be this year if it is based on the ETS

Robert Gottliebsen taking about the mining industry and how the ETS will destroy Australias wealth

to quote just one paragraph:

In the past few weeks, as I talked with mining and power chiefs, I discovered a deep sense of anger and frustration. [...]

A carbon tax does not mean there will be any new power technologies

One comment from ABC the world today. An ETS scheme and $100 Billion costs on business does not guarantee development of new technologies.  If hundreds of billions of dollars is taken out of Australian business and handed over to households – how does that money get to develop new technologies?