Australia's new emissions trading scheme


Australian Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull has introduced Australia's new emissions trading scheme into parliament under the guidance of PM John Howard. The program will force companies to report emmissions and energy consumption by July 2008 and the thresholds will be prgressively tightened over 3 years. While carbon credits and emissions trading have been hotly debated, I will refrain from comment on that. I will, however, take note that Howard conveniently jumped on the green bandwagon around the same time as a certain Texan. Read more about the emissions program... http://ararat.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?story_id=1037582&src=topstories

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