Tag Archives: Emissions Trading Scheme
Pamper our farmers enough and they will fix global warming
Author, inventor, businessman and Agmates member Allan Yeomans writes: . Emissions trading is being ordained as our prime weapon to combat global warming; yet it is designed to permit, absolutely,… Read more
Kevin Rudds ETS Means Australian Workers to take 10% Pay Cut to Keep Their Jobs
South Australian Liberal Senator Mary Jo Fisher writes: . Treasury confirmed in Senate Estimates on Wednesday that real wages will be 10 per cent lower under Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme… Read more
Heard It Through The Grapevine #3
Hardly a week ever goes past that I don’t get a phone call or an email tip off about something that has happened, is happening or is about to happen…. Read more
We Don’t Have Farm Lobby Groups In Australia – We Have Country Clubs
Why is the USA Farm sector lobby so powerful and the Australian Farm lobby sector so weak ? As the US Cap-and-Trade legislation works its way through the USA congress… Read more
NFF and Cattle Council Rewarded by Government with Copenhagen Junket
Northern NSW Farmer and Australian Beef Association, Chairman, Brad Bellinger writes: . Our members are yet again disgusted with the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and Cattle Council of Australia (CCA)…. Read more
New ABARE Report – Kevin Rudd’s ETS Will Bankrupt Australia’s Food Producers
Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, John Cobb writes: . Farmers will go broke and food prices will rise, are the main findings of ‘official’ Government modelling into the… Read more
Petitioning Rural Press – How Bad Have Things Got?
Things are bad when you have to almost raise a petition to get a rural press reporter to cover an issue. Just received this amazing email from Agmate Peter Cannon:… Read more
I Heard It Through The Grapevine #2
Hardly a week ever goes past that I don’t get a phone call or an email tip off about something that has happened, is happening or is about to happen…. Read more
Shoddy Science on Animal Emissions
SE QLD Farmer and Chairman of the Carbon Sense Coalition Viv Forbes writes: . Australian farmers pay livestock levies, research levies, marketing levies and taxes on every product they sell…. Read more
Sending The Senators a not so Happy ETS e-Postcard
Max Rheese of the Australian Environment Foundation writes: Hi Steve, Please advise the Agmates members that the e-postcards to Senators are now available on the ListenToUs website . Oppose the… Read more
