je.st
news
Tag: carbon tax
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: Carbon tax double dissolution threat just hot air
2013-10-14 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environment Minister Greg Hunt, who co-wrote a pro-carbon price university paper titled "A Tax To Make The Polluter Pay", announced today that legislation to repeal the Clean Energy Future Act would be introduced "in week one of the Parliament". In response to questions from journalists, he also refused to rule out the prospect that the Liberal government would take the legislation to a double dissolution election. "It will be our first legislative act", said Mr Hunt to reporters at a parliamentary...
Tags: hot
air
double
australia
Vive le carbon tax: France to tax fossil fuels
2013-09-25 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Australia may be out, but France is in. Two weeks after the new Australian government scrapped its carbon tax, France has announced that from next year, fossil fuel use will be taxed and the money used to further reduce emissions. The tax will target transport fuels and domestic heating, as these are not covered by the continent-wide Emissions Trading Scheme that focuses on European energy and industry. Fuel use is already taxed in France, but from next year part of this tax will be determined...
French carbon tax to raise 4bn for green energy by 2016
2013-09-23 11:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: France is set to introduce a carbon tax from next year that should generate EUR4bn from 2016 to fund investments in renewable power and energy efficiency. French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault made the announcement over the weekend outlining the details of the tax confirmed by President Francois Hollande on Friday, and also revealed plans for a levy on nuclear power plants without saying how much that would raise. The carbon tax will be levied on all fossils fuels in proportion to the emissions...
Sites : [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] next »