Why the ALP want Australian carbon credits to be property...

Below is the email I received and my original comments as emailed earlier
today.

What is obvious:

the industry overseas involved in selling all manner of credits treats the
Gillard plan as what it is- a SCHEME. The word scheme implies exactly what
it is- a plot, a plan. Not a proper emissions reduction project.

Durban is a grim conference with the whole world's carbon schemes either
already folded or dying.

Australia is shining out for all the salespeople overseas as the last
place left where they can run their unregulated sales pitches and scams.

I say unregulated- what the government claims is great regulation will have
zero impact on stopping the dangerous types of deals because at the end of
the day they're private contracts.

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Hi,

this arrived in my inbox:

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Subject: Access Code: 15th September -Webinar on Overview of
Australian
Carbon Scheme and Role of Offsets
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Date: Wed, September 14, 2011 7:30 am
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Dear Industry Colleagues,



As a build up to Durban Climate Conference (COP-17) ,Climate Connect is
organizing a series of webinars that will be focused on upcoming Carbon
schemes in different parts of the world. Below is a complimentary invite for
you to attend our AUSTRALIAN CARBON SCHEME WEBINAR.



A SPECIAL "A ROAD TO DURBAN-WHAT'S NEXT IN CLIMATE MARKETS" Conference
Booklet is being prepared and will be released at the COP-17 venue. For
sponsorship and advertising opportunities contact
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@climate-connect.co.uk .



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WEBINARS

Australia.jpg15 September 2011: Overview of Australian Carbon Scheme and
Role of Offsets

Australia has announced a carbon tax regime to be implemented from 1 July
2012 and cap & trade 2015 onwards. The quantum of tax has been decided to be
A$23 per ton of CO2e. About 500 industrial units will be affected by this
tax. Companies impacted include likes of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Qantas.




Some of the Topics that will be covered during webinar:

. Which sectors are impacted?

. Which sectors will be given free allocation?

. Can non Australian projects supply carbon credits?

. When will international carbon credits be accepted?





WEBINAR DETAILS
Date: 15th September 2011- Thursday
Time: New York 10:00 / London 15:00 / New Delhi 19:30

Broadcast location: Climate Connect Knowledge Center, New Delhi
Duration: 30 mins



ONLINE ACCESS DETAILS

Link to webinar: Meeting: Australia_Carbon_Scheme
or copy paste the following link in your browser
(https://climateconnect.megameeting.co.uk/?page=guest
&conid=Australia_Carbon_Scheme)

Meeting Host: CC Speaker
Meeting Name: Australia_Carbon_Scheme
Meeting Password: climateconnect

PHONE DIAL IN OPTIONS

Dial in number: From UK ( 0844 84 84 84 0 or 0844 8 360 360 )
Any other country ( +44 844 873 60 60 or +49
1803 002 063 )
Participant passcode:xxxxxxxxxxx "

This is a briefing for the exploiters of the carbon market, overseas
exploiters, just as Tony Abbott predicted, for how they can dive straight
in and start trading in our market. This is the same crowd that has
destroyed the EU trading scheme and looks like wrecking any sensible
trading scheme in California, etc.

We have no regulations in the proposed legislation that will make any
impact on foreign traders doing deals that are of shall we say
questionable value to Australia and Australian businesses.

Meanwhile, 100% locally owned business of my acquaintance are being buried
under red tape in NSW and Vic which is preventing them from selling new,
fully tested and approved, products which could reduce people's energy
bills by 10, 20 or even up to 50%.

Not good.
Another point about this latest insanity of making carbon credits
"permanent" is that, as tradable securities, this directly enriches the
government and ALP-linked businesses.

There are specific exceptions in all the carbon tax laws that say no one
in Australia will trade credits immediately- except for government-backed
projects, many of which are owned or run by labor luvvies...

This 2013 date when they were going to launch it does NOT apply to their
own projects. They will sell credits from their own projects as soon as
the law is passed.

Further, the securitisation of the carbon credits turns them into a
phantom currency, or fiat currency, in other words the ALP carbon credits
become a money printing exercise.

On these points alone the Liberal vision for direct action is so far superior as to make the ALP sinister agenda a sick joke, and another HSUgate / AWUgate / hookergate style scandal and grift in the making.

EXCLUSIVE: full expose of AGW alarmist propaganda

I will be putting up complete scans and audio files of a propaganda lecture by Will Steffan and staff of the University of Canberra.

The bias on display was staggering- pictures of pro and anti AGW politicians were shown, with a picture of Tony Abbott held up whilst the host lecturer identified him as "a denier" who is stopping the Liberals from doing the right thing.

The presentation was a total propaganda package and had nothing to do with the course for which the COMPULSORY presentation was made. This is really and truly Nazi style gleichschaltung coordination propaganda.

Some in the audience were outraged at the waste of their class time but a disturbing number of dummy youngsters were won over, lacking both the maturity and deeper education to resist the relentless spin and lies.

The lecture presented every single saw from the AGW alarmist camp, from the least offensive to the already discredited and truly shocking travesties of science on which they rely.

Next week: another compulsory lecture featuring Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, which is presented as settled science. It is of course neither.

The Real Cost of Electricity under the Carbon Tax: SKY HIGH

Hi,

this is straight from an energy trader in NZ, and is the real cost of electricity ahead after a carbon tax comes in:

xxxxxxxxx "In the NZETS electricity retailers appear to have simply added the cost of carbon at the NZETS cap of $25NZD to their prices. This despite an NZU trading at much lower levels. Traders argue that holding costs must be added to the cost of a NZU. There has been no regulatory response that I know of. Some design elements of the AUETS and carbon tax need to address some of the weaknesses of the NZETS that have emerged from its operation over the last year."

In other words, the energy sellers have NOT factored any market fluctuation into prices but instead simply directly stuck the carbon tax on to the price. Using THAT real world data, Treasury's science fiction about prices is shown to be a total fantasy.

Electricity will skyrocket beyond most people's wildest nightmares. Forget 40-50% increases in prices- this will put it at a 300-400% increase, meaning in real terms rolling blackouts, brownouts, energy load scams by unscrupulous sellers, huge increases in energy thefts, and of course the vulnerable literally dying in high summer and deep winter.

Nice work, Gillard.

China's Green Credentials

China is frantically building wind farms (which are usually just empty paddocks with a fence around them), solar plants (see wind farms) and "clean" coal plants - ie normal coal plants with the word clean put in front of them.

This is not exactly a massive programme of environmental reform. What it is, is a way to game the carbon credit system and do the minimum required to earn credits and kudos worldwide whilst maintaining business as usual.

In other words, China is running its same polluting primitive destructive systems, covered by a green fig leaf.

While You Sleep, The Gillard Regime Is Still Stealing From Your Family

In the dying days of world war 2, indeed throughout the last full year of the war, long after it was patently obvious to 99% of the Germans that they were defeated and were facing not just a normal military defeat but an epic, world-historic annihilation, it is interesting to note that the atrocities, war production, institutionalised theft, massacres and cultural rape not only continued unchecked but actually increased in intensity, thoroughness and vindictiveness.

With the authentic fury of the demonically inspired, the Germans embraced their Nazi ideology and exterminated, stole and destroyed occupied Europe in the spirit of the Roman Emperors - "after me, let fire consume the world."

We've seen it in Australia, with the ALP, many times. Hawke and Keating pursuing to the bitter end their Fabian objectives of white genocide and permanent cultural harm- creating the racial ghettoes that plague us to this day.

More recently the idiotically inept and corrupt government of Keneally in New South Wales set a new benchmark in deliberate graft, deception, traitorous dealings with foreigners and economic rape.

And so the gillard regime- illegitimate from the moment that their tame sot of a governor general refused to dismiss them after the hung election, and proceeding from that point to this to destroy our surplus, institute a new wave of attacks on Australia's culture, and to pursue Fabian and indeed communist policies with the aim to hurt Australia (as it was) so much that no matter when Tony Abbott takes over- be it months or years- there will be permanent harm.

ACRE is just one small part of the carbon tax- one of the least offensive parts of it. We could liken it ot the Nazi art theft in the context of the great horrors the Nazis perpetrated. Nevertheless, ACRE is in effect, having begun last Monday, and is already busily funnelling countless millions to underserving pointless bureaucratised dead ends. Dead ends that produce no reduction in emissions, that have no commercial viability, that are funded by government fiat and will vanish like the mirages they are the moment the gravy train is cancelled.

In short, classic ALP courtiers suckling at the teat of the cancerous welfare state.

See you all in Canberra on August 16.

Carbon Tax Bad. No wait, Cabon Tax Good. Doubleplusgood.

Australians are big polluters? BOLLOCKS. We're big greenies!

Hi,

http://yosemite.epa.gov/sab/sabproduct.nsf/0/2F9B572C712AC52E8525783100704886?OpenDocument

Anthropogenic sources are the only emissions counted under any ETS or Carbon Tax, by definition:

"Anthropogenic emissions
Greenhouse-gas emissions resulting from human activities. Anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases include industry, agriculture, mining, transportation, construction, and deforestation."

Bushfires CAN'T be a source of anthropogenic ie manmade emissions, by simple definition.

Smoking gun is below, I have xxxxx'ed out emails since it was commercial in confidence.


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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FW: xxxxxxxxxxxx [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 10:09:04 +1000
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
CC: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I have been in meetings or travelling since we last spoke, so I thought
it best to send you an email on the question of CO2 emissions.

Cheers, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Under the CFI, estimation methods must be not inconsistent with (but need
not necessarily be the same as) the methods applied in compiling
Australia’s National Greenhouse Accounts (as detailed in the National
Inventory Report), where relevant, and internationally agreed
methodologies and reporting practices adopted by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The National Inventory Report (6.8 Field Burning of Agricultural
Residues, see excerpt below) states that CO2 emissions from burning of
agricultural residues are not included in the inventory total since it
is assumed that an equivalent amount of CO2 is removed by regrowing
vegetation in the following year. Consequently, CO2 emissions reductions
from cessation of burning could not be claimed as abatement under the CFI.

The full NIR is available via the following website, and Section 6.8
contains the formulae for calculating emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse
gases from burning of crop residues.

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/~/media/publications/greenhouse-acctg/national-inventory-report-2008-vol1.pdf

As noted in my previous email, if combustion of the green material
(bagasse/trash) at the mill generated greenhouse gas emissions, these
would need to be accounted for. To clarify this point, only the non-CO2
greenhouse gas emissions would need to be accounted for. This is
consistent with the NGER (Measurement) Determination 2008.

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*6.8 Source Category 4.F Field Burning of Agricultural Residues*

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*6.8.1 Source Category Description*

/The burning of residual crop material also releases CH 4, N2O, CO , NOx
and NMVOC s into the/

/atmosphere. These gases are formed from carbon and nitrogen in the
plant material during the combustion/

/process. As per the IPCC Guidelines (IPCC , 1997) the CO 2 emissions
from burning of agricultural/

/residues are not included in the inventory total since it is assumed
that an equivalent amount of CO 2 is/

/removed by regrowing vegetation in the following year./

//

/Traditionally, burning of agricultural residues in Australia consists
of stubble burning (notably for wheat/

/crops), and burning of the sugar cane crop immediately before harvest.///

//

Note ( NIR, page 2) clarifies that gases (other than N2O, CH4) which are
estimated as part of the inventory (NOX,CO, VOCs – as listed in the
field residues list of gases) would not be required for inclusion in
methodology GHG abatement boundary. Information collected on these gases
as part of the Inventory relates to broader policy objectives on
indirect contributors to climate change. Consistency with the National
Accounts would mean only including N2O and CH4 in the GHG project boundary.

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OK so what the hell does that even mean?

It is pretty simple. It means bushfires, burnoffs and all else to do with fire in a field is BIOGENIC and thus not counted. It is a "zero sum" for carbon crediting because each year's output is sequestered by next year's vegetation.

Therefore counting bushfires is WRONG and is inflating Australia's carbon footprint by approximately 25% - 33% presumably solely for the purposes of justifying a big fat tax on "carbon".

What the real figures actually prove is that Australia's giant landmass, even in its vegetation-poor deserts, sequesters ie absorbs more than its fair share of the world's greenhouse gases. Far from being big polluuuddderrs as Gillard is keen to call us all we're punching above our weight class in terms of absorbing the rest of the world's pollution.

Which just makes more sense when you look at our wide brown land.

Tax War: Day One

Get ready for $83 dollars a tonne carbon tax: The Long Term Plan

Hi,

based on the numbers already being used by the Gillard government, the chances are excellent that their eventual carbon price is going to be around $83 a tonne.

Why?

This is the "high end" number assigned to what is called the "Social Cost" of carbon. Cut free from all the socialistic verbiage what it comes down to is that at $83 a tonne the price of emissions is high enough to permanently alter human behaviour- stop people driving, starting businesses, buying shares, basically shut down the freedom of Western civilisation.

This high price also makes renewable energy viable as an alternative to efficient sources of energy such as coal, nuclear and oil. Below this high price renewables are not going to be viable unless agricultural based renewables such as burning weeds and waste in cogen plants is considered or unless the addiction to windmill boondoggles is replaced by algae farming and wave power.

But $83 / tonne is there in black and white, and it is a figure that the Gillard-Greens alliance will be forced to use. If they don't hike the price to that level, none of their schemes will work. Of course the net effect will almost certainly be the mass closure or relocation of business and the reduction of Australia to a true banana republic. Except that bananas won't be viable to cultivate either - carbon tax on fertiliser and diesel will see to that.

Social cost of carbon:
http://www.wri.org/stories/2011/07/social-cost-carbon-and-climate-change-policy

Final IPART report into 2011 electricity prices

Final IPART report into 2011 electricity prices
Last updated: 16 June 2011

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has released its final report into regulated electricity prices to apply from 1 July 2011.
This report has found that electricity prices in NSW are set to rise approximately 6% above previously approved rises as a result of the Commonwealth’s Renewable Energy Target. In total the report states average regulated retail electricity prices will rise from July 2011 by:
· $230 per year (17.9%) for EnergyAustralia* residential customers
· $216 per year (15.5%) for Integral Energy* residential customers
· $316 per year (18.1%) for Country Energy* residential customers
Electricity prices are rising as a result of network charges, which are the costs to maintain our electricity networks (the poles and wires) and green schemes, like the Commonwealth’s Renewable Energy Target scheme, which will increase bills by 6% (approximately $75 per household). .

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