Climategate Fallout: Australia’s Parliament Shoots Down Cap-and-Trade
Whew! Australia dodged the bullet on that one:
Australia’s Parliament defeats global warming bill
By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Dec 2, 2009 – AP via Yahoo News
SYDNEY – Australia’s plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week.
The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration’s proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air.
The 41-33 vote followed a tumultuous debate in which the conservative main opposition party at first agreed to support a version of the government’s bill, then dramatically dumped its leader and switched sides after bitter divisions erupted within the party.
The new leader, Tony Abbott, said Australia should not adopt an emissions trading system before the rest of the world.
“The right time, if ever, to have an ETS is if and when it becomes part of the international trading system and that is not going to happen prior to its adoption in America,” he told reporters after the vote.
Rudd had wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week’s U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a world leader on the issue. He discussed the issue with President Barack Obama this week during a visit to the White House from which he was still returning Wednesday.
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2 December, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Bolt deserves a lot of credit for this
Doc Gramfan and I, along with sooooooooo many Bolt readers went on a massive email/twitter/facebook campaign to get Turnbull out of the leadeship of the Liberal Party, ( the conserbatives here),and vote down the ETS – our cap and tax system.
Obviously a lot of Aussies agreed with this move.
Rudd was out of the country, as usual.
I think he was even in Washington which, needless to say, didn’t make the US news!
Meanwhile, his nemeisis, Tony Abbott, get’s global coverage without even trying,lol!
As we have NO right-oriented news here, other than blogs, you would never know about this. in fact the other news outlets have been censoring “Climategate”.
It’s a disgrace.
Good thing is that perhaps we can use ‘the goracle’s internet’ to expose these snake-oil salesmen.