Australia has a Carbon Tax

We have a Carbon Tax

I understand and accept the science.  I know some of the climate scientists personally and deeply respect their integrity.  I have understood and been concerned about the greenhouse effect for over 40 years now.

I am deeply worried about what the world will be like for my grandchildren.

However, I cannot understand how this carbon tax will help.

Australia is one of world's largest per-capita producers of greenhouse gases, due to its heavy reliance on coal to generate electricity.

The new laws claim to reduce the country's carbon emissions to 95 percent of year 2000 levels by 2020.

BUT……

At the same time they are trebling the size of the coal industry and increasingly moving into prime farmland and damaging water tables with coal seam gas and fracking!

I just don’t get this!  It does not add up logically and the carbon tax looks like a bit of window dressing on the front of the quarry.

They are compensating people on low incomes so that they can continue emitting excessive greenhouse emissions when logic says they should be helping people to reduce emissions. 

I would think that although most of you have minimal real impact on the global emissions and climate you are and will be feeling a real impact from rising electicity costs and these are both worth looking at and suprisingly easy to cut when you really look at them critically and include this in your business management.

Come to one of my risk management in business workshops because this will be one of the topics you will look at.  You will discover ways I help businesses and individuals to reduce your own carbon emissions and that will save you money as power bills are going up and this will continue.

My kindest regards

Jean

P.S. Yes, I know I am repeating myself bout the workshops and there is a good reason.  Not everyone reads the newsletters every week and people called me after the last workshop and after I cancelled the Melbourne one because everyone left it until the last minute. 

They were upset because they missed out.  – So I repeat myself – with no apology because I know these workshops are really helpful and I would love to see you there.

The feedback sheets from the Adelaide workshop read:

Other comments were that the workshop was: “ An eye opener for the tasks at hand” and “The course clarified and informed. I now feel more comfortable with the whole process”.

And of course some people who came to the workshop in June found this really helped them to speed up their certification to integrated ISO systems

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