whom are the 500

DalyMacca · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:11 am Post subject: whom are the 500

Can we get a list?

No - we can't, according to the Government. The 500 companies are not an identified list. The figure of 500 is just an estimate of how many companies in Australia would be caught by the scheme's eligibility rules.

Here's how it works: any company which has a facility (plant, factory, premises or similar) directly emitting more than 25,000 tonnes of carbon a year will be forced to cough up $23 a tonne for that pollution. Now, this is a bit tricky, because it means a company with 20 facilities each emitting 24,000 tonnes of CO2 a year would not be liable, while some poor boob with one factory emitting 26,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide and 19 clean green beansprout-fired tofu smelters would still have to cough up.

thats fair and just isnt it

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JayyyyyGee · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:22 am Post subject:

Julia Gillards mouth would be @ the top of that list wouldn't it

And they reckon moo moo cows emit huge amounts of gas from their poop holes, well the moo moo's have nothing on gillard
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headshot · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:31 am Post subject:

JG must be one you cant shut him up on here has something to say about everything

JayyyyyGee · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:50 am Post subject:

She gets on my nerves like no other politician
Dont even listen to what she has to say, swap channels as soon as i see that ripe old melon of hers on the idiot box
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DalyMacca · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 11:17 am Post subject:

Gerry Harvey will pay but fairfax media wont ????
Mars (confectionary) will pay but Maccas wont (obviosly trans fats arent a true polutant)
murray Goulbourn milk will pay by NAB and WESTPAC wont

Tabcorp wont pay but Telstra will

Vodaphone wont but
Waste Recycling and Processing Corporation (Trading as WSN Environmental Solutions) will

see lists of corperations here

http://www.climatechange.gov.au/government/initiatives/national-greenhouse-energy-reporting/~/media/publications/greenhouse-report/nger-publication-0411.pdf
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rockcod · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject:

The companies will have the biggest incentives to cheat and worm their way out of paying this tax. I'm sure they will find a way to fudge the figures to make it look like they are emitting less co2 than they really are.

To actually reduce emissions they either have to reduce productivity, sack people and make less profit, or invest in new technology with will cost money, but in a lot if situations is not possible.

Or just cop the tax, pass it the costs on to consumers, keep pumping out co2 in order to keep making max profit. That is what most will do I would think so why will emissions drop?

I would have thought the companies have a certain incentive already as the more co2 they produce the more energy they are using and the more production costs them, they should be operating pretty efficiently already.

Cheers,

Dave

_Gazza_ · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject: Re:

MullowayMaDDneSS · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:04 pm Post subject:

Top of the list:

http://video.theaustralian.com.au/2046689698/Abbott-says-No?area=videoindex10

Anybody got a watermelon?

A sock just doesn't cut it somehow.
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_Gazza_ · Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: Re:

headshot · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:31 am Post subject:

Noticed that