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Pull the plug on electricity shambles
This year thousands of pages in government reports have addressed electricity supply policies. Electricity is also at the eye of the carbon...
Junk Kyoto and the carbon tax
From Doha it's clear the rest of the world cannot sustain the UN-led model for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and Australia should recognise it...
Failure to extend Kyoto agenda will mean pain at home
Over the next week the fallacy that our carbon tax is in line with international action to cut greenhouse gases will be exposed, and with serious...
Privatised power cheaper and better than alternatives
Energy issues are rivalling political scandals as a preoccupation of the news cycle in both America and Australia. In the US, reduced costs of...
Costs lost in the focus on climate
It is more than 25 years since the possibility that carbon dioxide and other human-induced greenhouse gas emissions achieved currency as possible...
EU carbon link just more hot air
Any business that buys cheap European emissions permits now may find them worthless by the end of the year. Linking emissions trading schemes isn't...
Somersaults and a belly-flop: carbon tax fails on all counts
In a humiliating backdown, Climate Change Minister Greg Combet, though failing to acknowledge the damage of a carbon tax to the Australian economy,...
Electricity users cop the renewable energy bill
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", says a Shakespearean character noting how poor government had caused the country to go to the dogs....
Rise in electricity rates offers a chance to grasp nettle of privatisation
In an attempt to deflect blame for electricity price increases from the carbon tax, Julia Gillard has drawn attention to the high cost of...
Uncertainty erodes the outcome
Finally, some honesty. In "Carbon price floor crucial to its aims" (The Australian Financial Review, July 5) four lead advocates of the...