| Carbon Week |
| Carbon Week |
Local governments’ bid for for carbo compo was refused by Federal planners. The South East Queensland Council of Mayors, the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils, the Local Government Association of Tasmania, the Shoalhaven City Council and the Australia Institute argued that local government should be treated as a strongly affected industry, or otherwise provided with compensation to adapt to the scheme.
(Full Article)Australia's Low Pollution Future White Paper told Skywest Airlines, the Regional Aviation Association, Virgin Blue and Qantas, they had to pay the carbon Virgin Blue estimated emissions intensity of aviation to be around 800 tonnes of CO2-e per million dollars of revenue (Submission 461, p. 2). At a carbon price of $25 per tonne of CO2-e, this represented approximately a 2 per cent increase in the cost of air travel, which is broadly similar to the general level of inflation in the consumer price index in any given year.
(Full Article)Prices would increase across all states, with higher increases in those states with more coal-fired generation. ROAM Consulting results point to the most significant increases occurring in Queensland.
(Full Article)NSW planned a feed in tariff for solar. It was not clear if it was to be gross (like the ACT) or net (like SA and Queensland), ACT residents were get paid up to $0.60 per KwH for any energy produced by their solar panels. This was an increase of 3.88 times the standard rate paid for electricity. The NSW Solar Feed-in Tariff Scheme was to apply to solar only “small scale, grid connected, solar photovoltaic (PV) panels”, but might add other micro-generation later.
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