Business Council Of Australia - Carbon Tax? What's That? ST

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THE Business Council of Australia has made it clear it has no plans to take up the sensitive issue of a carbon tax, despite calls from several chief executives last week for more Federal Government action on climate change.

BCA policy director Maria Tarrant said the council was already considering climate change in its infrastructure action plan released last year.

She said the BCA also strongly supported recent moves by the Council of Australian Governments to set up several working parties to look at the issue of climate change. Ms Tarrant said the BCA was concerned to see a national policy framework on climate change.

But she said the council had no plans to "drill down" into specific policy suggestions such as a carbon tax or carbon pricing mechanisms.

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http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,18763666%255E462,00.html

[phantom power]

1. How scary is it getting, when businessmen beg the govt to tax them?

[dipsydoodle]

2. Maybe it was a notional tax ?

Associated with this subject : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4684029.stm

Also search "carbon trading"

[rfkrfk]

3. this idea is being sold to the wrong country

the EU needs a carbon tax or carbon rationing