how does one SELL a Carbon Tax?

This weekend the Federal Government plans to announce a price on pollution as the central element of a policy which aims to tackle climate change.

On Monday there will be a Carbon Tax Forum with Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey at Mackillop College Hall, Buckland Road, Nundah Just up the hill from Wayne Swan’s Electorate Office) trying to sell a simple message. "Don't buy a Carbon Tax".

It would appear (with the support of the Greens & a few independent, the legislation will pass through the House of Representatives and the Senate.

The carbon Tax is not about you or I.

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Who will pay?

If one has a look at the NGERs database on the Australia Government's Department of Climate Change & Energy efficiency website. one can actually see who Australia's top emitters are.

I had to pull the data into excel and sort it to get a list.

Unfortunately there was to much data to post on this blog so here is a taste of the Top 30:

If one then starts looking at the financial reports, for these companies, then paying around $23/tonne, is not going to send any of them broke, or have them moving offshore or going to dramatically increase the costs of the products that they make.

I hope the Government can cut through with some simple messages about a complex problem. We have to start somewhere.

	Registered Corporations	Total	Total	Total energy consumption (GJ)
		scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions	scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions
		(t CO2-e)	(t CO2-e)
1	Woodside Petroleum Ltd.	8,391,652	38,443	1,557,762,307
2	Shell Australia Limited	1,442,496	493,836	337,883,431
3	Macquarie Generation	23,408,791	175,836	262,206,181
4	Delta Electricity	20,453,113	233,034	233,568,391
5	TRUenergy Holdings Pty Ltd	15,612,214	227,828	221,553,056
6	Great Energy Alliance Corporation Pty Ltd	19,797,636	231,396	219,375,235
7	International Power (Australia) Holdings Pty Ltd	17,247,970	312,865	199,368,414
8	C S Energy Limited	16,824,919	98,818	198,800,018
9	Conoco Phillips Australia Gas Holdings Pty Ltd	1,574,820	2,718	192,255,357
10	Apache Energy Limited	864,379	937	158,747,704
11	Alcoa Australian Holdings Pty Ltd1	6,757,567	9,804,728	148,367,174
12	Eraring Energy	12,067,677	49,594	135,012,143
13	Origin Energy Limited	1,873,394	52,965	130,471,364
14	BlueScope Steel Limited	10,791,351	1,424,605	129,555,224
15	Rio Tinto Limited	7,701,301	9,651,903	127,321,860
16	Loy Yang Holdings Pty Ltd	10,186,782	20,296	116,129,307
17	OzGen Holdings Australia Pty Ltd	10,173,421	38,468	113,493,236
18	Electricity Generation Corporation T/A Verve Energy	8,418,390	6,014	107,524,921
19	Alinta Energy Limited	7,863,143	145,715	100,083,644
20	Tarong Energy Corporation Limited	8,230,839	135,085	94,325,696
21	Stanwell Corporation Limited	7,445,704	18,101	84,465,134
22	NRG Victoria 1 Pty Ltd	7,034,972	56,572	77,407,252
23	Qantas Airways Limited	3,956,061	224,024	57,806,437
24	CSR Limited	631,392	431,932	52,212,722
25	Queensland Alumina Limited	3,556,459	726,522	47,784,970
26	OneSteel Limited	2,583,496	1,302,775	42,986,108
27	Wesfarmers Limited	2,403,609	2,760,935	41,042,209
28	Qenos Holdings Pty Ltd	839,465	351,664	39,473,326
29	BHP Billiton Limited	5,150,942	1,819,255	39,290,140
30	BHP Billiton Aluminium Australia Pty Ltd	2,313,184	350,985	37,414,742