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Origin Energy's views on carbon price and RET

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, In : Carbon price 

Watch this extended interview with Origin Energy's Grant King on the effects the carbon price and the Renewable Energy Target. 

Quote: Origin Energy's chief executive Grant King has told Inside Business a low carbon price would 
lead to future investment in coal rather than gas-powered plants.

"If the price was always going to be $6 you'd be building coal-fired power stations," he said.

"A carbon price of more like $40 is necessary to really swing the economics from building 
coal to gas.

"Insofar ...

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What would a quick transition to ETS really mean?

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, In : Carbon price 
Matthew Wright and Trevor Jack argue that  'a lower carbon price may bring short-term political gain, but credibility on global warming would go up in smoke'.   

Some quotes: An argument for transitioning to the ETS earlier than currently legislated is that it would be cheaper. True, in the short term, given that the carbon tax would be around $25 and the ETS cost would be about quarter of this. But this is cheaper in the same sense that buying a five-litre can of fuel is cheaper than buying a...

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Kevin Rudd reframes climate as a hip pocket nerve issue

Posted by Vote Climate on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Carbon price 
Imagine how much better this interview might have gone if Mark Butler and Kevin Rudd were talking about more ambitious emissions reductions and the need for action on the greatest moral issue of our time?
Caving in to Abbott and the business lobby and talking about the need to change policy to relieve cost of living pressures has done the ALP no good at all.
Will be interesting to see how efforts at 'product differentiation' from the Greens pan out. But probably not really a good idea either ...
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Combet says carbon price is here to stay

Posted by Vote Climate on Wednesday, June 5, 2013, In : Carbon price 

Greg Combet at Press Council lunch:

"Carbon pricing is here to stay,'' said Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet today in defiance of Coalition claims Labor should bow to an election mandate. Mr Combet said if Tony Abbott were elected Prime Minister "he cannot and will not repeal the carbon price''. "Labor will remain committed to it,'' he told the National Press Club in Canberra. "Tackling climate change has been in our platform for over two decades, and we will fight for what we believe i...


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Shorten denies rumours that ALP is considering retreat from Carbon price

Posted by Vote Climate on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, In : Carbon price 

Melbourne climate group Lighter Footprints has contacted Bill Shorten and he has written back reassuring the group that the speculation about the ALP backing away from the carbon price, if under pressure from the Coalitions after the election, is unfounded.

Read more from Business Spectator below:

It took nearly two weeks, but Bill Shorten on Thursday finally put to rest rumours on both sides of parliament that he was trying to build support for a Labor backflip on carbon pricing.

The speculat...


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Might the ALP walk away from carbon pricing?

Posted by Vote Climate on Monday, May 20, 2013, In : Carbon price 


Is there a battle brewing between Shorten and Combet for leadership of the ALP after the election - if they lose? Is Shorten sounding out colleagues about walking away from the carbon price like the Coalition did with WorkChoices?

From Business Spectator: "… some strong proponents of climate change action believe Bill Shorten has begun lobbying members of Caucus to abandon carbon pricing as a Labor policy after the next election.
The argument follows the precedent set by the Coalition over Wo...
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EU's low carbon price blows back on Australia

Posted by Vote Climate on Saturday, May 11, 2013, In : Emissions Trading Scheme 
The unprecedented collapse in European carbon prices is shattering Australia's budget assumptions just as corporate resistance to the market weakens in the developed world's biggest per capita polluter.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-economy/eus-carbon-crisis-blows-back-on-australia-20130509-2j8t0.html
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Is the carbon price working to reduce brown coal use?

Posted by Vote Climate on Saturday, May 11, 2013, In : Emissions Trading Scheme 
Electricity generated by Australia's highly polluting brown coal power plants has fallen 14 per cent since introduction of the carbon price, while renewable power has soared. However, there are many factors at work.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/less-electricity-from-brown-coal-20130509-2jals.html
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Liberals may win control of Senate

Posted by Vote Climate on Saturday, May 4, 2013, In : Political analysis 
Latest analysis by expert pollster Anthony Green suggests that the Liberals could win control of the Senate and thus be able to repeal the carbon price.

As reported in The Age:

If current polling continues, and Mr Abbott wins a majority in the House of Representatives, then to repeal the carbon tax he would need 39 votes in the Senate. Currently the Coalition controls 34 out of the 76 seats. 
The Coalition will win another seat in Tasmania and is likely to claim Greens' Senator Sarah Hanson-Youn...
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