According to key industry figures, introducing a carbon trading system with set minimum emission reductions and no international agreements will create significant problems for Australian business.
The Minerals Council of Australia has said it hopes the Federal Government's White Paper released today will include a phased and measured transition to emissions trading.
The transitions assistance levels contained in the Federal Government's green paper for emissions-intensive, trade-exposed industries are inadequate and inefficient (EITE), Queensland Resources Council chief executive Michael Roche said.
The Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Energy and Resources, Barry Haase, has said the Federal Government's emissions trading scheme will inflict great pain on miners, energy distributors, exporters and consequently the wider population.
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has been encouraged by the Government’s embrace of key policy principles in the design of an Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) as announced in the Green Paper on a “Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme”, yet there remains significant questions about the detail of
An emissions trading scheme introduced ahead of a global agreement will harm, not benefit our most competitive exporters. Minerals Council of Australia chief executive Mitchell Hooke writes.
Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson has outlined his vision for the Australian minerals industry.
The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has said measured transitional arrangements will be the key to ensuring the proposed emissions trading scheme achieves its environmental objectives without compromising economic growth, community living standards and the competitiveness of Australian industry.
Queensland's resource sector industries have submitted a six-point checklist to the federal government's Garnaut Climate Change Review.
THE Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has supported the key recommendation of the Prime Minister’s Task Group on Emissions Trading to establish an Emissions Trading Scheme within Australia.