News Item : Origin set to benefit from carbon tax

The AFR reports that Origin, as a gas-fired and renewable energy producer, would benefit from a carbon pollution tax as it would drive consumers to its product and away from coal-fired generation.

Woodside wants carbon tax exemption for LNG - The West Australian

Woodside Petroleum has warned that a carbon tax would be passed onto WA natural gas customers.

The energy group also wants its LNG exports exempted from any carbon pricing agreement.

Republicans’ anti-green agenda | Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg

IT started on a sultry day in Houston when hundreds of protesters, mostly oil company employees, were bussed to a concert hall in their lunch hour to rally against a historic first step by Congress to reduce the pollution that causes climate change.

The event marked the start of a backlash by wealthy industry owners and conservative activists against Barack Obama’s green agenda. Now it has snowballed into what green campaigners say is the greatest assault on environmental protection that America has ever seen.