-- The Australian - ......Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today delayed the start date of its proposed emissions trading scheme by a year to win Senate support for its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. The measure is just one of a series a compromise measures announced by the Prime Minister in an attempt to win the support of the Greens for its climate blueprint. The package includes a very low fixed price on carbon for the first year of the scheme’s operation and extra assistance for each of the two categories of so-called trade exposed industries for the duration of the recession.
It also includes the concession that the government will consider a tougher emissions reduction target of 25 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020, in the unlikely event of a global agreement designed to limit the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at 450 parts per million. Otherwise the government’s previously announced target range of 5 to 15 per cent would apply.
......But the Government will still need the support of independent Nick Xenophon and Family First’s Steve Fielding to steer the CPRS through the Senate, and both responded negatively to today’s announcement. “The governments CPRS is fundamentally flawed,” Mr Xenophon told The Australian Online. “The model is unfixable and the changes announced today are simply window-dressing.
“If you give a lame duck a hair-cut, it’s still a lame duck.”
......Family First’s Steve Fielding said the government was “still intent on putting Australian jobs at risk” through the CPRS. “Four months ago the Prime Minister told Australians it would be ‘reckless and irresponsible’ to delay this scheme and now he has done just that,” Senator Fielding said. “I’m concerned that this government is taking a huge risk by demanding it lead the world with its climate changes scheme, and it’s a risk that will carried by the Australian people.”
......Senator Fielding accused the government of moving to placate the Greens. “There is no doubt Australians want to preserve our environment but clearly, if the government can sanction a delay of a year to this scheme, the situation is not as dire as the government has been telling us.”
It also includes the concession that the government will consider a tougher emissions reduction target of 25 per cent of 2000 levels by 2020, in the unlikely event of a global agreement designed to limit the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at 450 parts per million. Otherwise the government’s previously announced target range of 5 to 15 per cent would apply.
......But the Government will still need the support of independent Nick Xenophon and Family First’s Steve Fielding to steer the CPRS through the Senate, and both responded negatively to today’s announcement. “The governments CPRS is fundamentally flawed,” Mr Xenophon told The Australian Online. “The model is unfixable and the changes announced today are simply window-dressing.
“If you give a lame duck a hair-cut, it’s still a lame duck.”
......Family First’s Steve Fielding said the government was “still intent on putting Australian jobs at risk” through the CPRS. “Four months ago the Prime Minister told Australians it would be ‘reckless and irresponsible’ to delay this scheme and now he has done just that,” Senator Fielding said. “I’m concerned that this government is taking a huge risk by demanding it lead the world with its climate changes scheme, and it’s a risk that will carried by the Australian people.”
......Senator Fielding accused the government of moving to placate the Greens. “There is no doubt Australians want to preserve our environment but clearly, if the government can sanction a delay of a year to this scheme, the situation is not as dire as the government has been telling us.”
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