MINERAL miners will receive hundreds of millions of dollars worth of compensation in the first year of emissions trading, according to a new analysis.
21/10/2008
THE MINERALS Council of Australia says the industry won’t be able to survive the Federal Government’s policies on emissions trading and industrial relations in the current economic climate.
04/03/2009
THE EMISSIONS Management for the Mining and Processing Industries Workshop will hit Brisbane’s Mercure Hotel from 5 to 7 November 2008.
16/09/2008
XSTRATA’S warning to the government of mass job cuts if the emissions trading scheme (ETS) was to take affect has prompted parliamentary debate.
18/03/2009
THE Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has backed Professor Garnaut’s climate change report, but warns the absence of a global climate agreement and transitional emissions trading scheme (ETS) could make it ‘environmentally ineffective’.
02/10/2008
NORSK Hydro met with Climate Change Minister Penny Wong on 7 April 2009 to discuss concerns over the emissions trading scheme.
07/04/2009
THE MINERALS Council of Australia (MCA) is questioning the feasibility of targets outlined in a government climate change report.
10/09/2008
THE MINERALS Council of Australia says Kevin Rudd’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) plans are far more stringent than the new European Commission ETS proposals.
23/09/2009
ALCOA Australia says it and other companies need another energy source to power smelting operations to relive their emissions burden.
25/03/2009
A Tasmanian smelter that announced it would go under with the emissions trading scheme (ETS) has prompted the state’s premier to point the finger at his federal Labor colleagues.
18/11/2008
DURING a University of Western Australia forum in Perth Alcoa’s Manager of Carbon Strategy Tim McAuliffe reiterated that Australia needs a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme that responds to the needs of climate change while ensuring jobs and industry remain in the country.
10/08/2009
THE proposed emissions trading scheme (ETS) will expose Australian mining companies to some of the highest carbon costs in the world, according to the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA).
30/01/2009
ALUMINIUM smelters are set to feel the heat with the global fight against climate change to halve its emissions by 2050.
03/11/2008
RISKMETRICS has released its findings on its analysis of the modified Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
21/05/2009
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at businesses seeking emissions trading concessions, saying avoiding financial pain is “not do-able”.
26/09/2008
NORSK Hydro says it has put its plans for expanding its aluminium smelter on hold because of the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
12/03/2009
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has visited the Tomago Aluminium smelter as part of his Hunter Valley trip to discuss the emissions trading scheme (ETS) with local businesses.
02/09/2009
THE Federal Government says the minerals processing industry has been identified as being eligible for subsidy against the impact of carbon trading over the next three years.
20/02/2009
THE MINERALS Council of Australia has come under attack for failing to accept the emissions trading scheme (ETS).
20/03/2009
FOLLOWING the Coalition’s decision to not pass the emissions trading scheme (ETS) laws in 2009, the Federal Government has warned that the industry could end up with an inferior assistance package.
28/05/2009