A new report does the numbers on the handouts to big polluters proposed in the government’s emissions trading scheme and finds they would have been a colossal waste.
Carbon leakage
Carbon leakage: how a carbon price would fit into big polluters’ accounts
The cost of carbon permits under the CPRS for our biggest polluters sounds a lot — until you see what they pick up or lose on the changing Aussie dollar.
Carbon leakage: reason for hand-outs or corporate hot air?
“Carbon leakage” is at the heart of the Federal Government’s beleaguered CPRS — and yet it remains an unproven theory across the globe.
I’m a climate currency leakage sceptic
Carbon leakage is all superstition and nonsense, says Bernard Keane — and he can produce the figures to prove it.
Why Rudd’s CPRS should be voted down
Passage of the CPRS bill will protect and entrench the very carbon pollution the scheme purports to address. The only sensible vote from any perspective is “No”, writes Bernard Keane.
