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progressiveslol

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Big polluters better off under carbon tax
Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:38am

All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax.

AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows.

The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens.

Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14.

It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over.

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http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-...

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MOTR Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6646	Re: Big polluters better off under carbon tax Reply #1 - Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:44am Time to wind back the compensation. It looks like the Greens were right again.
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: Big polluters better off under carbon tax Reply #2 - Sep 6^th, 2012 at 5:39pm We have numbers, Here: Coalition $1.18, Labor $4.50 http://centrebet.com/#Sports/Event/2062830
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Re: Big polluters better off under carbon tax
Reply #3 - Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:35pm

progressiveslol wrote on Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:38am:

All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax.

AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows.

The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens.

Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14.

It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over.

more
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-...

No - all we have been hearing is that the carbon price is the end of the world as we know it.

Tony's days are numbered

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Re: Big polluters better off under carbon tax
Reply #4 - Sep 7^th, 2012 at 7:46am

rabbitoh07 wrote on Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:35pm:

progressiveslol wrote on Sep 6^th, 2012 at 6:38am:

All we have been hearing is big polluters would be better off under direct action blah blah. Well suck it up, they are better off under a carbon tax.

AUSTRALIA'S highest-emitting brown coal electricity generators are between $400 million and $1 billion better off than they would have been if there were no carbon tax, new modelling shows.

The brown coal generators' stronger-than-expected financial position yesterday forced the Gillard government to abandon its attempts to pay some of them to close down by 2020, infuriating environmental groups and the Greens.

Giving up on the negotiations frees at least $1 billion in the budget from 2013-14.

It triggered demands from the Greens that the government reconsider $4.5 billion worth of compensation yet to be paid to the companies on top of $1 billion already handed over.

more
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/carbon-tax-leaves-big-polluters-...

No - all we have been hearing is that the carbon price is the end of the world as we know it.

Tony's days are numbered

So are yours... and mine. So are everyone's. The number of this day is seven!

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Prevailing Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7169 Stop Men	Re: Big polluters better off under carbon tax Reply #5 - Sep 7^th, 2012 at 11:29am Its not scientific to place a tax on the chaotic interactions of the elements of the universe...why would an impersonal inanimate universe tax itself...this is a neurosis...
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