The Gillard Government’s Clean Energy Future plan signifies that the game is up for the free rider’s polluting our planet. The Carbon Tax of $23 per tonne of carbon for July 1 2012 – June 30 2013 sends a clear message that polluters must pay. In this age of compromise politics, the industry lobbyists who [...]

photo credit: Martyn Hutchby I wrote this awhile back and never sent it into the ether. Now that Rudd has put the CPRS on the backburner until 2013 (pls bring in the Carbon Tax asap), let’s have a look at why so many were against it. CPRS= Corporate Polluters Runaway Subsidy With the heat on [...]

Renegade Economists Podcast 108 As broadcast on www.3CR.org.au 30/09/09. Subscribe to the podcast. Free Trash of Freeport: We finish off our climate friendly policy overview, then interview Nick Chesterfield (Manukoreri) and Nicholas Taylor (Outcrop) to discuss the immense wealth and destruction flowing from West Papua’s $40bn Freeport mine. Photo – Freeport’s tailings, thanks SkyTruth. Key [...]

photo credit: backpackphotography Today’s Age report on Carbon Cowboys Riding High THE Australian at the heart of Papua New Guinea’s carbon trading rush is entrepreneur and racing identity Kirk Roberts, who is believed to have convinced many tribal groups to sign their rainforests up for future use as carbon credits. Mr Roberts, who runs his [...]

photo credit: miak The present collapse in Managed Investment Scheme’s was inevitable. The power of the tax system saw companies like Gunns planting trees around the clock in years gone by, just to meet the immense demand from tax-minimising activities. Kohler wrote in 2004 that upwards of 10 million gum trees were planted in the [...]